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" 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. "

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

" When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another. "

" Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story - my favorite records have a narrative feel. "

" Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something. "

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

" In some ways, I feel like I've always dabbled in nostalgia. It's just what I do; it comes naturally. "

" 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. "

" My general taste is towards the melancholy. "

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

" 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. "

" Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "