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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs. "

" I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I try to stay on a pretty normal schedule of nine-to-five. "

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

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

" I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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" A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive. "

" I love listening to pop radio. "