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• ‟ I'm mostly known for writing electro and aggressive bangery house music. But before I started making electro, and while I was making electro, this sort of gushy, make-the-ravers-cry sort of sentimentality is so important to me.

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• ‟ When I'm writing good music and I'm caffeinated, I attribute all my success to the coffee, get really sentimental about the EDM scene and tweet a lot.

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• ‟ I want my music to be really big. I have no interest in DIY Brooklyn; I don't want to be a small indie band.

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• ‟ Virtual Self' was me trying to paint a picture of a very foggy, distorted memory that I had of electronic music on the internet.

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• ‟ I wanted 'Second Sky' to be my way of recommending truly good music to my audience that I think is worthy of their time.

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• ‟ I was still on track to go UNC at Chapel Hill, I had no plans to be a musician. It wasn't even a goal of mine. Then I had this song that blew up and went viral and suddenly I found myself playing shows and having this music career.

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• ‟ Electronic music was this super cool thing to me my whole life.

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• ‟ I was trying to write new music, but there was nothing I was reacting against. It turned out 'Worlds' itself became something for me to to resist.

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• ‟ I just want the truth about it, because if the reality is that electronic music festivals are significantly more dangerous than other festivals, then something should be done about it, and that warrants conversation.

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• ‟ There are a lot of people who wonder why Japan is a pretty consistent influence in my music, and I think it's because the reason I started writing - my intro to electronic music was Japanese music.

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• ‟ Yeah, I've always wondered what it would be like to make music that's not nostalgic at all, and it's really, really hard for me to imagine.

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• ‟ I wanted to do music that was a little more sentimental, emotional, and serene - completely different from the party music I was doing.

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• ‟ Writing music while caffeinated produces some interesting results. The stimulation basically amplifies my music-production-dependent bi-polarity.

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• ‟ Toplines usually suck. I'll send a song to a band or artist whose entire body of work I love and I'll ask them to do a vocal for one of my songs and I'll get it back and I'll hate it so much. It might have to do with my possessiveness over my music.

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• ‟ I had a lot of self-doubt when I started. And I still do. But I had a lot of the wrong kind of self-doubt when I first started making music and first started to tour. I think I was a little bit deferential.

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• ‟ One thing that scares me a little bit is that I want people to like my music, but I think a lot of what I like about my own music are these references to things that people don't share nostalgia with me on.

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• ‟ And I'm interested in writing music that takes risks. My point is that maybe the term EDM is pinned on me and my buddies, but maybe it'll be less so if I experiment.

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• ‟ I'm never going to stop writing music as Porter Robinson and I see 'Virtual Self' as more of a tangent.

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