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• ‟ I always want to be somewhat uncomfortable. But at the same time I want to make music that you react to viscerally.

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• ‟ It's interesting because neither of my parents play instruments. They both love music, but neither of them are musicians. Somehow, I was drawn to it.

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• ‟ Whatever you are making, whether it's a song, an album, a painting, a film, you're connecting with a tradition, and I do feel connected to New York music.

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• ‟ It's hard to make music that's sexy that's not cheesy.

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• ‟ I think the music that speaks to me the most is music that is personal. And that's the music that I'm trying to make.

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• ‟ Even though I've been making electronic music since I was 14, it's hard for people to see you as a producer with a musical identity when you're contextualized in a band that performs on a stage.

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• ‟ My music is about identity.

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• ‟ I certainly think that my music is a response to my experience as a person who doesn't identify as straight, as a person who grew up American.

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• ‟ I made a quote-unquote 'album' for my senior project of high school. As soon as I finished making it I realized it wasn't the kind of music I wanted to make.

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• ‟ I feel like there's no one kind of person who comes to my shows. Sometimes I've been surprised by the people who will stop me on the street to tell me that they're into my music.

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• ‟ I think that for a lot of us gay people, we do feel that pop is our music. We identify with it and its iconography, and that's been a tradition.

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• ‟ I work on music with different people, and I work on music on my own. That's my life.

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• ‟ Honestly, I never felt like I wasn't an artist on my own. I always felt like the music I made was mine, whether it was part of a collaboration with people.

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• ‟ I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a producer. In some ways, I have looked to his career as a model for my own.

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• ‟ I'm as guilty as anyone else of listening to music track by track.

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• ‟ I tend to use different microphones, different mic techniques, and different recording mediums - like analogue tape - that evoke multiple eras of recorded music at the same time.

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