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" Green tea is my main source of caffeine, so I drink it every day. "
Julia Holter
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" No one recognises me on the street, ever. "
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" What was special about Leonard Cohen's work was its calm mystery. "
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Calm
Mystery
" I usually like to hide my vocals behind the music. I don't like to hide them consciously, but I have a tendency to prefer the vocal at the same level as everything else and put lots of reverb on it. "
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Like
Behind
Everything
" I played cello on my early recordings, but that doesn't mean I'm a cellist, you know? "
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Mean
Know
Early
" All I ever know is what I want to do next. "
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Ever
Know
Want
" One of the struggles that I have with classical music is the way one thinks about a recapitulation. There's always this idea of themes, and I have trouble with that. "
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Always
Struggles
Music
" I'm not an unhappy person - I'm just an anxious person. It runs in the family. "
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Family
Just
Person
" I think of each record as different and not having very much in common with what went before or what comes next. "
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Common
Next
Different
" Putting my audience to sleep isn't what I'm going for. "
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Putting
Sleep
Audience
" I usually work in a room which is totally cluttered with my mess, and there's stuff everywhere, and it's kind of chaotic because I am a very messy person. I could totally write in a pristine environment, but it would mean I would have to be at someone else's house. "
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Work
House
I Am
" I grew up watching 'Gigi.' My grandmother had it, and I watched it there. "
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Grandmother
Watched
Up
" I don't fit into a group very well socially. And that might be reflected in my music. "
Julia Holter
Music
Well
Fit
" I really write at home on my own, and the demos themselves are very similar to the final recordings in a lots of ways. "
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Home
Own
Ways
" I like working with students a lot and watching some of the amazing stuff they put together. "
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Amazing
Students
Together
" 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. "
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Voice
Human
I Am
" 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. "
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Seen
Scary
Like
" 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. "
Julia Holter
Respect
Crazy
Boxing
" 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. "
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United
Find
Easy
" Musical themes developing is a lot of what classical music is based on, and exposition and recapitulation - these kinds of things I find oppressive. "
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Things
Music
Find
" I really love working with Ramona from Nite Jewel. We've kind of grown up together. "
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Together
Working
Up
" 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. "
Julia Holter
People
Writing
Depression
" One thing I've learned is I really want to work with people. "
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Want
Learned
One Thing
" For me, the poetic decisions tend to be calculated, and the musical decisions inspired by the poetic decisions are free. "
Julia Holter
Inspired
Me
Poetic
" 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. "
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Writing
Music
People
" I see myself as a songwriter and a poet. "
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See
Songwriter
Poet
" I really like being home. I like being comfortable, and I'm not a very dramatic person. "
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Being
Like
Person
" You can have an Internet presence, but it doesn't mean anyone has any idea who you are or what you look like. Which is great. "
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You
Mean
Look
" When you make music on your own for so long, you get used to just doing whatever you want. "
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Long
Music
You
" 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. "
Julia Holter
Thought
Music
Think
" I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it. "
Julia Holter
Eight
Started
Really