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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Julia Holter

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

" The Beatles, even Radiohead, all of my favorite stuff I'd play on the piano. But it was all very secret - for me, for fun. I wasn't going to record myself playing those songs, and it never occurred to me to write a song of my own. "

" 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. "

Julia Holter

Words

Important

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

" 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

" 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 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. "

" 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 write thinking directly about what I'm feeling, usually. I just let myself write whatever comes out without it necessarily being directly a translation of what I'm aware that I'm feeling, you know? "

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

" I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it. "

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

Julia Holter

Together

Working

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Julia Holter

Music

Know

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

Julia Holter

Technology

Vibe

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

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

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

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

Julia Holter

Being

Person

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

" 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. "

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

" There's a lot psychologically going on in boxing... I think I relate to some of it. I have a respect for it. It's like performing, but it's also this crazy, self-destructive thing. "

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

" To me, the process of art is very much a process of translation, of borrowing. "

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

Julia Holter

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Watched

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

" 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. "