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" 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. "

Julia Holter

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" 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? "

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

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

" 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 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

" I do develop characters for songs, and I think of everything as storytelling, in a way. But I don't plan out what they're going to sound like. I just sing over what I've done. "

" 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 think my music is experimental, playful, challenging, focused, fun. I don't want it to be thought of as trying to appeal to a certain type of person or being very cerebral. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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