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" 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. "

Julia Holter

Work

House

I Am

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Working

" 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. "

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People

You

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" It's so hard to know where you belong, ever. You have to be yourself and let yourself fall wherever you fall. "

" 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. "

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" I like talking about my music. "

" 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. "

" There's a lot psychologically going on in boxing... I think I relate to some of it. I have a respect for it. It's like performing, but it's also this crazy, self-destructive thing. "

" I try to ignore people's opinions about my music - you don't want to hold yourself back because of that stuff. "

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

Julia Holter

Ever

Recognises

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

Julia Holter

Paparazzi

You

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

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

" 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 see myself as a songwriter and a poet. "

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

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Julia Holter

Inspired

Poetic

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

Julia Holter

Grandmother

Watched

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

" 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

" 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. "

Julia Holter

Kind

Sad

" 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. "