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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Julia Holter

Behind

Everything

" 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. "

Julia Holter

Internet

Reading

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

" 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. "

Julia Holter

Idea

Person

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

Julia Holter

Over

Beautiful

" I've never felt at home anywhere. "

" I don't like to talk too much about my music; I like people to just experience it and not worry what I have to say. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" For me, the poetic decisions tend to be calculated, and the musical decisions inspired by the poetic decisions are free. "

Julia Holter

Inspired

Poetic

" I try to not think too much about how people are receiving my music. And I'm not really famous enough that it's a problem. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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Kind

Sad

" 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. "

Julia Holter

Focus

Music

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

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

" 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 love '80s beats; everyone does. "

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

Julia Holter

Common

Different

" 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. "

" 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? "

Julia Holter

Simple

Support

" I take music very seriously, but it's important to me that my music is - I don't know if 'intuitive' is the word, but there's a really important element of something kind of mysterious. It's not academic or esoteric. "

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Music

Know

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

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

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Together

Working