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

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

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

" I was pretty scared of the idea as a younger person of being a musician on the road. It didn't occur to me as a possibility. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 often find that I like the vibe of not having technology around me. "

" I grew up watching 'Gigi.' My grandmother had it, and I watched it there. "

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

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

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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'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. "

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

" 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? "

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

" When I'm depressed is when I'm not interested in writing anything, whereas some people, I think, are spurred to creativity through their personal experiences and through depression. And for me, it's a very low place, and it's not fruitful. "

" I love '80s beats; everyone does. "

" I don't consider myself supremely talented, but I really like to try things and sift through it and see what mess I made. "

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" 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. "