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

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

Julia Holter Quotes