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" Musical themes developing is a lot of what classical music is based on, and exposition and recapitulation - these kinds of things I find oppressive. "

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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? "

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

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

" I basically just write stream of consciousness to a certain extent. I let the song kind of go where it wants to go. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 'Betsy' is one of my favorites because it is the one to which I've imposed the least clear narrative. To me, it's so much more about the feeling - desperation - than any kind of story at all. There's very little imagery or character development; it's just about a deep and desperate search for something. "

" 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. "

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

" I think of each record as different and not having very much in common with what went before or what comes next. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "