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" I usually like to hide my vocals behind the music. I don't like to hide them consciously, but I have a tendency to prefer the vocal at the same level as everything else and put lots of reverb on it. "

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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. "

Julia Holter

Music

Know

" David Bowie - I definitely knew some of his music as a teenager, but I didn't actually listen to his music as much until I was in my 20s. "

" '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 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. "

" 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. "

Julia Holter

Internet

Reading

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

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

" When I was a kid, I had a xylophone, and I thought that was the instrument I wanted to play. I didn't realize it was a toy. "

" It's nice to work with people who know how to mic drums right and how to record properly. But there's something to be said for doing it yourself. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

Julia Holter

Common

Different

" The meaning of the words in my songs are very important to me. But what's most important to me is that the music works. "

Julia Holter

Words

Important

" I don't use the harpsichord because it evokes a past time period: I use it because I like the sound. "

" 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 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 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

" 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 like talking about my music. "

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

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

" A lot of my personal life feels very separate from my music. "

" What was special about Leonard Cohen's work was its calm mystery. "

" If you've ever seen paparazzi go after a celebrity, it's really freaky. "

Julia Holter

Paparazzi

You

" 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. "

" It's hard for me to get shows in the U.S. It's that simple. I don't know what that means. I think it means there's not as much support here for my music? "

Julia Holter

Simple

Support

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