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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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 talking about my music. "

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

" For me, the poetic decisions tend to be calculated, and the musical decisions inspired by the poetic decisions are free. "

" I've never felt at home anywhere. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I played cello on my early recordings, but that doesn't mean I'm a cellist, you know? "

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

" 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'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 ever like to see paparazzi much, but I have seen them, and I guess anyone who's seen them knows how scary they are. "

" 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 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. "