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" 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. "

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" 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

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

" It's nice to work with people who know how to mic drums right and how to record properly. But there's something to be said for doing it yourself. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Julia Holter

Grandmother

Watched

" One thing I've learned is I really want to work with people. "

" 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 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 use the harpsichord because it evokes a past time period: I use it because I like the sound. "

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

Julia Holter

Ever

Recognises

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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

" 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 just always make honest music. I just always kinda do what I wanna do. "

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

Julia Holter

Together

Working

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

Julia Holter

Being

Person

" 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 do have a big problem with the idea of music as a form of communication unless it's political - and that's where it's tricky because a lot of music is political, even if it's not overtly so. But my music isn't that; it's about a feeling. "

" 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. "

Julia Holter

Seen

Scary

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm not an unhappy person - I'm just an anxious person. It runs in the family. "

" 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