89 Quotes by Julia Holter

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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