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

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" I see myself as a songwriter and a poet. "

" 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 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? "

" One thing I do like about L.A. is the fact that you can be - whether you're famous or it's just a matter of, like, seeing people you know all the time on the street, you can be pretty anonymous and walk around and, like, not run into people, because it's such a big city and because a lot of people drive. "

" I'm not, like, always focused; I'm very unfocused. I'm reading, and then I'm looking at my phone, and then I'm on the Internet. "

" 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 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. "

" In L.A., you can play forever, and no one around the world will hear you. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I'm happy that I worked alone on 'Tragedy,' but it's obvious that I was trying to create something much bigger than I could do on my own. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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 love '80s beats; everyone does. "