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

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

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

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

" I listen to the timbre of the music, and I fit my voice to blend with that timbre. "

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

" I don't thrive in a school or academic environment, I found out. I thrive better in the world outside the small academy because I find it hard to explain what I'm doing. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" No one recognises me on the street, ever. "

" 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. "

" Green tea is my main source of caffeine, so I drink it every day. "

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

" I've never felt at home anywhere. "

" 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. "