Everyone knows about The Who, but I didn't. I knew the popular songs like "I Can See For Miles." So that was the first song I worked on because it wa…

- Petra Haden

The Conversation was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is.

- Petra Haden

I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.

- Petra Haden

It's my favorite movie score and because I had such a crush on Christopher Reeve. The music made me love him even more. You know when you hear music …

- Petra Haden

I didn't know how write a song, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, bridge, verse), etc., and I didn't know how to write lyrics, so that's…

- Petra Haden

I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she…

- Petra Haden

People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

- Petra Haden

The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo."

- Petra Haden

When we were on breaks from recording and touring, I was kind of moping around, like not knowing what to do. It was hard to adjust back to normal lif…

- Petra Haden