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" I see myself as a songwriter and a poet. "
Julia Holter
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" I'm not an unhappy person - I'm just an anxious person. It runs in the family. "
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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. "
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" 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 don't think I'll ever become a pop star. "
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" 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. "
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" '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. "
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" Green tea is my main source of caffeine, so I drink it every day. "
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" For me, the poetic decisions tend to be calculated, and the musical decisions inspired by the poetic decisions are free. "
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" I played cello on my early recordings, but that doesn't mean I'm a cellist, you know? "
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" One thing I've learned is I really want to work with people. "
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" If you've ever seen paparazzi go after a celebrity, it's really freaky. "
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" I really like being home. I like being comfortable, and I'm not a very dramatic person. "
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" 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. "
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" I like talking about my music. "
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" 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. "
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" I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it. "
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" 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 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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