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" I'm happy that I worked alone on 'Tragedy,' but it's obvious that I was trying to create something much bigger than I could do on my own. "

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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. "

" You can have an Internet presence, but it doesn't mean anyone has any idea who you are or what you look like. Which is great. "

" '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. "

" One thing I've learned is I really want to work with people. "

" 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 love '80s beats; everyone does. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Most records are usually not united by one specific story, but that seems to be something that I like and that I find easy to do. "

" 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. "

" I basically just write stream of consciousness to a certain extent. I let the song kind of go where it wants to go. "

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

" 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. "

" I see myself as a songwriter and a poet. "

" 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. "

" For me, the poetic decisions tend to be calculated, and the musical decisions inspired by the poetic decisions are free. "

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

" 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 played cello on my early recordings, but that doesn't mean I'm a cellist, you know? "

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

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

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

" 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. "