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" You can have an Internet presence, but it doesn't mean anyone has any idea who you are or what you look like. Which is great. "

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" I like mantras and repeating things, like in pop music, where you repeat a line over and over again. It's just so beautiful. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I've never felt at home anywhere. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 like talking about my music. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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