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

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" Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think. "

" I remember at one point, with a previous release of mine, I stumbled upon a shareware site, and the total number of downloads was in the thousands, maybe the hundreds of thousands. But there's no doubt that the Internet and that kind of sharing has been a huge benefit for the band. "

" Where I grew up in the middle of Georgia, hip-hop is king, and on Friday and Saturday nights, local DJs do mixes. It's a great mix of local stuff and then some of the bigger hits and remixes of the hits, and it just has this nice flow with a dirty-South sound to everything. "

" I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse. "

" The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like. "

" Ultimately, what interests me is using exotic sounds in my songs. "

" I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job. "

" I love listening to pop radio. "

" 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. "

" A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear. "

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

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

" I'm not a very technical musician at all. "

" I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that. "

" For the longest time, I was trying to be DJ Shadow, I think. But I slowly developed my own style. It was trial and error, for sure. "

" 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 listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it - I'll probably like it. "

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

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

" For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing. "

" When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all. "

" We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward. "

" Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do. "

" I was gonna work in a university, but no one was hiring. "

" I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a little more than that. "

" I have a small studio set up in my house in Athens. I'll wake up, have a nice breakfast, and I won't surface until dinnertime. I'm very domesticated in that way. "

" You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope. "

" My philosophy is generally to keep things as simple as possible. "

" 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. "

" One of the great things about music is how it can take you places. "