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

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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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I love '80s beats; everyone does. "

" I listen to the timbre of the music, and I fit my voice to blend with that timbre. "

" '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. "

" '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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think my music is experimental, playful, challenging, focused, fun. I don't want it to be thought of as trying to appeal to a certain type of person or being very cerebral. "

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

" I did study with Anne Carson briefly in Michigan. She taught there, and that's where I first encountered her, in her class. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I don't consider myself supremely talented, but I really like to try things and sift through it and see what mess I made. "

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

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

" 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've never felt at home anywhere. "

" 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. "

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