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" All I ever know is what I want to do next. "

" A lot of my personal life feels very separate from my music. "

" Amidst all the internal and external babble we experience daily, it's hard to find one's foundation. "

" 'Betsy' is one of my favorites because it is the one to which I've imposed the least clear narrative. To me, it's so much more about the feeling - desperation - than any kind of story at all. There's very little imagery or character development; it's just about a deep and desperate search for something. "

" David Bowie - I definitely knew some of his music as a teenager, but I didn't actually listen to his music as much until I was in my 20s. "

" For me, the poetic decisions tend to be calculated, and the musical decisions inspired by the poetic decisions are free. "

" Green tea is my main source of caffeine, so I drink it every day. "

" 'Have You in My Wilderness,' the title track, is about the idea of possessing a person, or saying, 'You're mine; you're in my world now.' I was drawn to that as an idea less from my own experience than from listening to music written by men that was kind of male gaze-y. "

" I am very interested in the human voice and how we use it, especially when we aren't thinking, like the kind of stuff Robert Ashley was interested in. "

" I basically just write stream of consciousness to a certain extent. I let the song kind of go where it wants to go. "

" I did study with Anne Carson briefly in Michigan. She taught there, and that's where I first encountered her, in her class. "

" I do develop characters for songs, and I think of everything as storytelling, in a way. But I don't plan out what they're going to sound like. I just sing over what I've done. "

" I do have a big problem with the idea of music as a form of communication unless it's political - and that's where it's tricky because a lot of music is political, even if it's not overtly so. But my music isn't that; it's about a feeling. "

" I don't consider myself supremely talented, but I really like to try things and sift through it and see what mess I made. "

" I don't ever like to see paparazzi much, but I have seen them, and I guess anyone who's seen them knows how scary they are. "

" I don't fit into a group very well socially. And that might be reflected in my music. "

" I don't know how well I work in traditions. I don't know if it's just the way I listened to music growing up and never having my foot in one particular world, and just wanting to do my own thing. "

" I don't like to talk too much about my music; I like people to just experience it and not worry what I have to say. "

" I don't often meet with strangers and feel okay about collaborating with them. "

" I don't think all music that is considered 'avant-garde' is bad, but it's definitely elitist. I hope my music is not that. "

" I don't think I'll ever become a pop star. "

" I don't thrive in a school or academic environment, I found out. I thrive better in the world outside the small academy because I find it hard to explain what I'm doing. "

" I don't use the harpsichord because it evokes a past time period: I use it because I like the sound. "

" I don't write thinking directly about what I'm feeling, usually. I just let myself write whatever comes out without it necessarily being directly a translation of what I'm aware that I'm feeling, you know? "

" If I feel like I'm myself, then I'm very uncomfortable. "

" If I'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about. "

" If you've ever seen paparazzi go after a celebrity, it's really freaky. "

" I grew up watching 'Gigi.' My grandmother had it, and I watched it there. "

" I just always make honest music. I just always kinda do what I wanna do. "

" I like mantras and repeating things, like in pop music, where you repeat a line over and over again. It's just so beautiful. "

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