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" I'm inspired by nonmusical things a lot, whether it's a film or a book or whatever. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" Green tea is my main source of caffeine, so I drink it every day. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't ever like to see paparazzi much, but I have seen them, and I guess anyone who's seen them knows how scary they are. "

" '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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Putting my audience to sleep isn't what I'm going for. "