A biography for Julia Holterhasn’t been written yet.
“I prefer to work with mystery, but that doesn't work well in an academic environment. They want you to analyze what you're doing, which is toxic to the creative process for people like me.”
“When I was a kid, I had a xylophone, and I thought that was the instrument I wanted to play. I didn't realize it was a toy.”
“David Bowie - I definitely knew some of his music as a teenager, but I didn't actually listen to his music as much until I was in my 20s.”
“No one recognises me on the street, ever.”
“I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it.”
“I'm not an unhappy person - I'm just an anxious person. It runs in the family.”
“I don't fit into a group very well socially. And that might be reflected in my music.”
“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.”
“When you make music on your own for so long, you get used to just doing whatever you want.”