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

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" I really love working with Ramona from Nite Jewel. We've kind of grown up together. "

" I'm not an unhappy person - I'm just an anxious person. It runs in the family. "

" I take music very seriously, but it's important to me that my music is - I don't know if 'intuitive' is the word, but there's a really important element of something kind of mysterious. It's not academic or esoteric. "

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

" When I'm depressed is when I'm not interested in writing anything, whereas some people, I think, are spurred to creativity through their personal experiences and through depression. And for me, it's a very low place, and it's not fruitful. "

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

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

" 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 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 don't consider myself supremely talented, but I really like to try things and sift through it and see what mess I made. "

" 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 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" One of the struggles that I have with classical music is the way one thinks about a recapitulation. There's always this idea of themes, and I have trouble with that. "