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

" 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. "

" I've never felt at home anywhere. "

" '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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The meaning of the words in my songs are very important to me. But what's most important to me is that the music works. "

" 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 started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it. "

" 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 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. "

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

" If I feel like I'm myself, then I'm very uncomfortable. "

" 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. "

" I grew up watching 'Gigi.' My grandmother had it, and I watched it there. "

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

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

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

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

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