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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

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

Julia Holter

Technology

Vibe

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

" I don't think all music that is considered 'avant-garde' is bad, but it's definitely elitist. I hope my music is not that. "

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

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

" 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 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

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

Julia Holter

Being

Person

" I've never felt at home anywhere. "

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" 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. "