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" I've never felt at home anywhere. "

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" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 ever like to see paparazzi much, but I have seen them, and I guess anyone who's seen them knows how scary they are. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I really love working with Ramona from Nite Jewel. We've kind of grown up together. "

" 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 don't think all music that is considered 'avant-garde' is bad, but it's definitely elitist. I hope my music is not that. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 usually like to hide my vocals behind the music. I don't like to hide them consciously, but I have a tendency to prefer the vocal at the same level as everything else and put lots of reverb on it. "

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

" 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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