Latest Adam Young Quotes from Interviews

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• When you listen to someone sing from inside their head, their same mix, and you listen to their voice as loud as they like it, or the track of the band as low as they like it, you can really hear all of the nuances and the mistakes if there are any.

  Adam Young

  Mistake, Voice, Track

  "Interview: A fort time with Owl City frontman Adam Young". Coup De Main Interview, owlcitywiki.wikifoundry.com. 2013.

• You work so hard at something to make sure that it's very pure and very genuine and very steadfast to who you are, so creative control for me is a big one. Thankfully, I've been able to retain 98% of it which I never really expected, so I'm very grateful to be able to control what I can.

  Adam Young

  Grateful, Creative, Able

• I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody.

  Adam Young

  Nice, Home, Doors

• I live alone in a house, so for me it's very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and escape from reality and that's usually when I write most of my lyrics and my songs. It's a very happy productive place.

  Adam Young

  Song, Writing, Reality

• For me, it's always best to just push everything out and just disappear by myself alone somewhere - and it's kind of like a need of mine.

  Adam Young

  Needs, Kind, Disappear

• I'm a very introverted guy, so I don't need to be around people for as long as someone who's very extroverted to get that sort of social fix per se.

  Adam Young

  Long, People, Guy

  "Owl City (Adam Young) Interview". Coup De Main Magazine Interview, www.fanpop.com.

• I've definitely had a few moments in my life where I've seen somebody and it's blown me away at first sight, but I guess of those few scenarios, none of them have been like... I'm not married.

  Adam Young

  Sight, Firsts, Married

  "Owl City (Adam Young) Interview". Coup De Main Magazine Interview, www.fanpop.com.

• I kind of tend to do most of my adventures in my mind.

  Adam Young

  Adventure, Mind, Kind

  "Owl City (Adam Young) Interview". Coup De Main Magazine Interview, www.fanpop.com.

• I'd probably go to see Saturn first-thing and see as close to those rings as I can get and see if I can fly by one of them and try and put one of my hands through them.

  Adam Young

  Hands, Trying, Saturn

  "Owl City (Adam Young) Interview". Coup De Main Magazine Interview, www.fanpop.com.

• Usually, whatever's in front of me is what I'm focused on and it's 100% on that and then I kind of move from one thing to the next. Like, if I go to a restaurant and I order food, I always just eat one thing at a time.

  Adam Young

  Moving, Order, Next

  "Owl City (Adam Young) Interview". Coup De Main Magazine Interview, www.fanpop.com.

• I really do like surprises. I'm not so talented at planning things out or having schedules before or sticking to the plan per se, but yeah I'm very much a spontaneous guy and it's sort of hard for me to multi-task and to have all these things going on at once.

  Adam Young

  Guy, Tasks, Schedules

  Interview with Jonas City, www.fanpop.com. 2017.

• It's been very humbling and very cool to see [that at] each show I tend to see more and more kids lock onto the new lyrics and every night they start to sing louder and louder and it's just been very exciting.

  Adam Young

  Kids, Night, Locks

  Interview with Jonas City, www.fanpop.com. 2017.

• It's very cool for me to be able to get in an airplane and fly for fourteen hours and show up in a place I never thought I'd ever be and have kids in the same room singing these songs I'd written so far away. To me, that's so surreal.

  Adam Young

  Song, Airplane, Kids

  "Owl City (Adam Young) Interview". Coup De Main Magazine Interview, www.fanpop.com.

• I'm a studio guy. That's really what I love the most. I'm so fascinated with audio gear and recording techniques and whatnot, it's pretty mesmerizing.

  Adam Young

  Guy, Technique, Gears

• When you write, produce, engineer and mix everything yourself, it tends to take a long time to do anything. And when you're a perfectionist little monster, it makes it even harder. But it's a blast and I wouldn't trade the opportunity for all the ice cream sandwiches in the universe.

  Adam Young

  Writing, Opportunity, Ice Cream