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" 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. "

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" I've never felt at home anywhere. "

" 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? "

" 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'm happy that I worked alone on 'Tragedy,' but it's obvious that I was trying to create something much bigger than I could do on my own. "

" I try to not think too much about how people are receiving my music. And I'm not really famous enough that it's a problem. "

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

" I played cello on my early recordings, but that doesn't mean I'm a cellist, you know? "

" I was pretty scared of the idea as a younger person of being a musician on the road. It didn't occur to me as a possibility. "

" I really write at home on my own, and the demos themselves are very similar to the final recordings in a lots of ways. "

" I thought I was gonna get a doctorate in composition or be a composer and be at a university for the rest of my life, mostly because my parents are academics, and that was the logical thing to do. "

" I love '80s beats; everyone does. "

" 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 think of each record as different and not having very much in common with what went before or what comes next. "

" There's a lot psychologically going on in boxing... I think I relate to some of it. I have a respect for it. It's like performing, but it's also this crazy, self-destructive thing. "

" I was in school for four years writing music to please my teachers. That was not music I liked. And when I make music that isn't for something I want to make, and it's to please other people, it's - the outcome is really bad. "

" I think my music is experimental, playful, challenging, focused, fun. I don't want it to be thought of as trying to appeal to a certain type of person or being very cerebral. "

" Musical themes developing is a lot of what classical music is based on, and exposition and recapitulation - these kinds of things I find oppressive. "

" One thing that's really important to me in my music is mystery. "

" I really like being home. I like being comfortable, and I'm not a very dramatic person. "

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

" 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. "

" 'Maxim's' was supposed to be on 'Ekstasis,' but it was very much in its own world. "

" You don't have to know about 'Hippolytus' to listen to 'Tragedy.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition. "

" I try to ignore people's opinions about my music - you don't want to hold yourself back because of that stuff. "