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" The classic problem in a relationship is a person trying to control the other person. People just want to conquer somebody. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't often meet with strangers and feel okay about collaborating with them. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" All I ever know is what I want to do next. "

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

" I'm inspired by nonmusical things a lot, whether it's a film or a book or whatever. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" '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 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. "

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