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

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" 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. "

" I often find that I like the vibe of not having technology around me. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" What was special about Leonard Cohen's work was its calm mystery. "

" 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 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 take music very seriously, but it's important to me that my music is - I don't know if 'intuitive' is the word, but there's a really important element of something kind of mysterious. It's not academic or esoteric. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" Saying that something is accessible gives it this implication that people need something, and thinking that we know what people need or want is really unpleasant. I don't like to think that way, like, predicting what it is that the people want. "

" 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. "

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

" Putting my audience to sleep isn't what I'm going for. "

" '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. "

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

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