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

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" It's like a painter with various layers of paint. I start with a drum loop and add keyboards, and then melodies start to take shape. The vocals happen later. I've never really done therapy before, but it's a form of therapy. Everything else falls away. "

" I don't really write all that well with others. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I love listening to pop radio. "

" 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. "

" The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now. "

" When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally. "

" The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective. "

" Over a year's time, I felt like I squeezed in five years of touring experience, which was a really huge help moving forward. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler. "

" I don't think it's an exciting thing to move back in with your parents. "

" I naturally like that dreamy, shoegazey sound on my vocals. A lot of reverb helps, and so do a lot of delay effects on everything. "

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

" If a band or artist isn't tweeting or writing posts on Facebook every day, there can be this kind of mystique built about them, and I find myself retreating from the spotlight more and more. "

" The one sound I think of when I think about dreaming is the harp glissando, which is this really atmospheric run up and down the scale that's really dreamy. "

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

" I definitely enjoy my time by myself - and that's kind of the weird thing about touring; you're kind of constantly surrounded by people - but I actually do enjoy going out and doing things and being around people. "

" 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. "

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

" I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential. "

" 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. "

" I definitely enjoy the kind of magic that happens being on stage with a group when everything's working. The vibe when that's happening gets even better if the audience is involved and you can feel that interaction. That's something you don't get with your headphones on in a studio; it's much different. "

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