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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions. "

" I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything. "

" 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 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 love listening to pop radio. "

" 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. "

" My general taste is towards the melancholy. "