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" I do develop characters for songs, and I think of everything as storytelling, in a way. But I don't plan out what they're going to sound like. I just sing over what I've done. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 don't like to talk too much about my music; I like people to just experience it and not worry what I have to say. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'm not, like, always focused; I'm very unfocused. I'm reading, and then I'm looking at my phone, and then I'm on the Internet. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The classic problem in a relationship is a person trying to control the other person. People just want to conquer somebody. "

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

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

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

" It's so hard to know where you belong, ever. You have to be yourself and let yourself fall wherever you fall. "

" I prefer to work with mystery, but that doesn't work well in an academic environment. They want you to analyze what you're doing, which is toxic to the creative process for people like me. "

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

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

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

" I like talking about my music. "

" 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. "

" For me, the poetic decisions tend to be calculated, and the musical decisions inspired by the poetic decisions are free. "

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" 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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