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

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" When I was a kid, I had a xylophone, and I thought that was the instrument I wanted to play. I didn't realize it was a toy. "

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

" I see myself as a songwriter and a poet. "

" Most records are usually not united by one specific story, but that seems to be something that I like and that I find easy to do. "

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

" When you make music on your own for so long, you get used to just doing whatever you want. "

" One thing I've learned is I really want to work with people. "

" When I'm depressed is when I'm not interested in writing anything, whereas some people, I think, are spurred to creativity through their personal experiences and through depression. And for me, it's a very low place, and it's not fruitful. "

" I'm not an unhappy person - I'm just an anxious person. It runs in the family. "

" 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. "

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

" I think what's interesting in L.A. is that there's a lot of variety because L.A. is very spread out. I think there is a lot I don't know about, to be completely honest. It's a very mysterious town. "

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

" The Beatles, even Radiohead, all of my favorite stuff I'd play on the piano. But it was all very secret - for me, for fun. I wasn't going to record myself playing those songs, and it never occurred to me to write a song of my own. "

" I'm inspired by nonmusical things a lot, whether it's a film or a book or whatever. "

" I started playing piano when I was eight, and I went on to study piano in school, so I have a background in classical piano and studied composition in school. Writing music came later. "

" In high school, I would secretly play Joni Mitchell songs all the time. That's when I started singing and playing at the same time, and I got really into doing that. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

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

" I've never felt at home anywhere. "

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

" There's definitely been a focus on the literary aspects of my music, and I always get a little cringey because I don't feel like I'm particularly literary. There's a sort of academic label that's put on me that seems inaccurate. "

" It's nice to work with people who know how to mic drums right and how to record properly. But there's something to be said for doing it yourself. "

" I like working with students a lot and watching some of the amazing stuff they put together. "

" 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. "