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" I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally. "

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" Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds. "

" In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life. "

" When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture. "

" My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do. "

" When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated. "

" My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet. "

" I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things. "

" I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that. "

" I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past. "

" The way I work is by infinitely playing a very simple loop over and over, and then I start layering things. "

" Maybe in the future, you'll be able to understand what I'm saying. I'm going more for an atmospheric vibe in my songs. And I really don't want to ruin the illusions people may create for themselves. "

" I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions. "

" The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it. "

" It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing. "

" Texture is very important. Just the feel of everything. It's not always about recording everything in pristine quality and having everything mixed where it's absolutely perfect. It's more about a vibe. "

" I just have the normal ringtone, unfortunately. "

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" I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing. "

" I lived in a neighborhood where there weren't many kids. I had a couple sisters, but I was very much a loner. Whatever film I had seen that day or that week, I would completely find myself in that world. "

" Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road. "

" I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that. "

" I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer. "

" Honestly, I've just made music so long by myself, in some ways I don't feel I'm a very good collaborator. "

" My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it. "

" I didn't realise how much I ate Mexican food, like tacos and burritos three times a week, until I came to Europe and couldn't find any. "

" I'm without a doubt a producer first. The lyrics happen towards the tail-end of the process, mainly because they're more stream-of-consciousness. It's very rare that I'm going to tell a really concrete story. "

" I'm very much a fan of having something tactile you can hold. "

" The Washed Out thing happened really quickly, and I wasn't really actively promoting the songs. I didn't think of them as any more than demos, really, and it sort of became a thing on its own. "

" I normally start at the computer with something really simple like a four-bar loop of a drum sample or a bass line. And then I just start adding layers of synthesizers. "