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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. "

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" 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. "

" What was special about Leonard Cohen's work was its calm mystery. "

" One thing that's really important to me in my music is mystery. "

" I've never felt at home anywhere. "

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

" I like talking about my music. "

" 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. "

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

" David Bowie - I definitely knew some of his music as a teenager, but I didn't actually listen to his music as much until I was in my 20s. "

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

" There's definitely been a focus on the literary aspects of my music, and I always get a little cringey because I don't feel like I'm particularly literary. There's a sort of academic label that's put on me that seems inaccurate. "

" 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 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. "

" One thing I do like about L.A. is the fact that you can be - whether you're famous or it's just a matter of, like, seeing people you know all the time on the street, you can be pretty anonymous and walk around and, like, not run into people, because it's such a big city and because a lot of people drive. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 'Maxim's' was supposed to be on 'Ekstasis,' but it was very much in its own world. "