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" 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? "

Julia Holter

Myself

Feeling

Know

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Julia Holter

Character

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" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Julia Holter

Kind

Sad

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

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

Julia Holter

Ever

Recognises

" In L.A., you can play forever, and no one around the world will hear you. "

" I was pretty scared of the idea as a younger person of being a musician on the road. It didn't occur to me as a possibility. "

Julia Holter

Idea

Person

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

" 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

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

" 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. "

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

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Julia Holter

Behind

Everything

" To me, the process of art is very much a process of translation, of borrowing. "

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" I don't think all music that is considered 'avant-garde' is bad, but it's definitely elitist. I hope my music is not that. "

" 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 try to not think too much about how people are receiving my music. And I'm not really famous enough that it's a problem. "