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" 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. "

Julia Holter

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People

You

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

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

Julia Holter

Over

Beautiful

" The Beatles, even Radiohead, all of my favorite stuff I'd play on the piano. But it was all very secret - for me, for fun. I wasn't going to record myself playing those songs, and it never occurred to me to write a song of my own. "

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

Julia Holter

Song

Kind

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Julia Holter

Internet

Reading

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

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

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

Julia Holter

Common

Different

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

" 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 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. "

" I think what's interesting in L.A. is that there's a lot of variety because L.A. is very spread out. I think there is a lot I don't know about, to be completely honest. It's a very mysterious town. "

" I started playing piano when I was eight, and I went on to study piano in school, so I have a background in classical piano and studied composition in school. Writing music came later. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

Julia Holter

Seen

Scary

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

" 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. "

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