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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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" 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. "

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

" If I feel like I'm myself, then I'm very uncomfortable. "

" In L.A., you can play forever, and no one around the world will hear you. "

" I love '80s beats; everyone does. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I say most of my music is very trial-and-error. "

" I don't consider myself supremely talented, but I really like to try things and sift through it and see what mess I made. "

" 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. "

" In high school, I would secretly play Joni Mitchell songs all the time. That's when I started singing and playing at the same time, and I got really into doing that. "

" When you make music on your own for so long, you get used to just doing whatever you want. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I like talking about my music. "

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

" I really write at home on my own, and the demos themselves are very similar to the final recordings in a lots of ways. "