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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can take you places, and they can be a positive influence. A very soothing influence. Honestly, I feel like there's enough pain and terrible things that happen in life. That's beautiful thing in art, you can really idealize things. "

" 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. "

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

" I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve. "

" 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 do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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'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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" My general taste is towards the melancholy. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" I just have the normal ringtone, unfortunately. "

" I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music. "

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

" 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. "