Julia Kent Quotes

I feel like we as human beings are trampling all over the natural world, but at the same time, we are totally in its power.

As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals.

It's just a spare room in my apartment. It's very cluttered and not particularly aesthetically inspiring, and it's very un-noise-proof.

I'm really terrible at sort of figuring out the thing that's going to make the money, I guess.

I enjoy touring and traveling because that's the time when I get to read, and listen to music. You have all that downtime, which is great for that.

I love traveling and I love seeing new places and meeting new people, but at the same time, it takes a certain amount of emotional strength to gel with that, at least for me.

Sometimes when I'm traveling, I feel a little bit dislocated, especially the transitions you make when you're traveling - you go to a different city every day.

I find when I'm touring or when I'm traveling, I just enter this other world kind of. It's much easier for me to be creative and be unselfconscious about creating when I'm home.

When you're touring, it's somehow hard to focus on other things. I know other people can do it, but I really can't.

I'm really not working in a environment that's sonically pristine. It's not a conventional studio, obviously; it's a bit ramshackle.

I've been making the recordings for a long time, and I have tons and tons of them. I'm like a digital hoarder or something - everything is on like hard drives and whatever.

I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.

I have totally like an urbanite relationship to nature. I mean I'm not someone who hikes.

I saw Grizzly Man; I know what can happen.

People tend to eat through the cello. They tend to take out the things that make it beautifully cello-y sometimes.

I feel as though I can get an end result that works for me, but as far as recording techniques, I don't feel that confident in my abilities.

Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware.

I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.

I can really only can record at home.

People who think animals have expressionless faces are like people who can ignore an open package of Oreos. Not quite human.

Josh is the company tech expert, which means we all think he’s a little bit shaman, a little bit magician, and mostly a nerd.

If I had echolocation I could map out the terrain of ab muscles through sheer force of will. His cut body is meant to be relief mapped the way Braille is meant to be read. With my fingertips.