youretheskythatifellthrough:

 ❞  Ironically the only creative atmosphere I’ve ever known has been alone in a dark basement studio so I didn’t want to mess with that because I never want making music to feel like work. I’m not the greatest mixer/engineer in the world and I’ll be the first to admit I’m not a music genius but that’s not what’s important to me.

stems-and-gears:

     “At the time when I began making music as Owl City, I started to have a lot of daydreams. I was stuck in a world I wasn’t thrilled with. I had no plan; I was just going through the motions. Music was my outlet from the more mundane world. I was singing with this optimistic, light-hearted sound about idealist worlds I wanted to be in.” -Adam Young

(Source: ontheheelsofwarandwonder)

youretheskythatifellthrough:

“This next song is called ‘Take It All Away’ and it’s about cake because I don’t like when people take my cake.”

youretheskythatifellthrough:

❞ At the end of the day if a song does half as well or a fourth as well I’ll still be totally happy cause what was written about the next chapter as Owl City feels very right; so regardless, if everyone loves it and it does great then wonderful.

For me it’s always been making the kind of music I’ve always wanted to hear, or to hear someone else make. Owl City is something I started to make with an inherently optimistic sound.

Owl City in film

airtrafficstreams:

Port Blue

youretheskythatifellthrough:

❞ Anything my imagination latches onto - I just start writing about.

youretheskythatifellthrough:

Boredom led to experimentation in his parents’ basement, and helped launch a lonely kid with no musical training to stardom.

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