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

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

" It's hard for me to get shows in the U.S. It's that simple. I don't know what that means. I think it means there's not as much support here for my music? "

" 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 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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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 think I'll ever become a pop star. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 say most of my music is very trial-and-error. "

" 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. "

" 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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" I like talking about my music. "

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

" 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? "

" '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 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. "

" 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. "

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