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

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

" Amidst all the internal and external babble we experience daily, it's hard to find one's foundation. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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