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" 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. "

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Julia Holter

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High School

Time

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One thing I do like about L.A. is the fact that you can be - whether you're famous or it's just a matter of, like, seeing people you know all the time on the street, you can be pretty anonymous and walk around and, like, not run into people, because it's such a big city and because a lot of people drive. "

" 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've never felt at home anywhere. "

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

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

Julia Holter

Together

Working

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

" I really like being home. I like being comfortable, and I'm not a very dramatic person. "

Julia Holter

Being

Person

" 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. "

Julia Holter

Music

Know

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

" '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. "

Julia Holter

Character

" I am very interested in the human voice and how we use it, especially when we aren't thinking, like the kind of stuff Robert Ashley was interested in. "

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

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

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

" '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 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

" 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. "

Julia Holter

People

You

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

" 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. "

" 'Maxim's' was supposed to be on 'Ekstasis,' but it was very much in its own world. "

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

Julia Holter

Grandmother

Watched

" 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 don't think I'll ever become a pop star. "

" I like mantras and repeating things, like in pop music, where you repeat a line over and over again. It's just so beautiful. "

Julia Holter

Over

Beautiful

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

Julia Holter

Ever

Recognises

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

" 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. "