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" Growing up, I had a natural love for women like Diana Ross, Mary Wells, Ella Fitzgerald. Then I got into Dionne Warwick, Nina Simone, and Patsy Cline. "

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" We still have so far to go as a country. People don't like to listen to women or take orders from them. I feel that a lot as a woman playing music. "

" I got offered publishing deals to write country music, but it was not what I wanted to do. "

" Music is what makes you feel joyful and makes me feel like I'm not alone. It's everything. "

" I've always been in this weird indie world, and for a long time, I felt that it was not okay to be girly in that world. "

" When I made dog sweaters, as goofy as that was, I made this product, and people could buy it, and I got money immediately. Music was just this ethereal land of maybe, a lot of waiting and waiting. You live your life around hoping you get a five-thousand-dollar royalty check that usually doesn't come. "

" That's what's so wonderful about collaborating: your idea can explode and become something else. "

" I wasn't taken seriously being the only girl playing in band growing up. "

" I've never wanted to be like anybody else. I'm me. "

" I'm a very loyal and compassionate person. "

" I do what I want to do instead of what other people think I should do, and I'm kind of stubborn that way. "

" I've struggled with self-esteem and depression, like most singer-songwriters. I listen to my EPs on Bandcamp, and I can just hear the pain and the self-esteem struggle in my voice. "

" I used to come home and play piano all day by ear and make songs up or figure out my favourite Elvis songs. I'd make up games by blindfolding myself and singing the harmony to whatever notes I'd play. "

" Music, for me, has always been a community thing. It's always how I make friends and hang out with people, because I didn't know how to do that. This is what makes me special. "

" There came a point when I was thinking, 'I'm now 26, 27, working on music every day, but I'm not making, like, a lot of money. What's happening? I guess I'll just start making dog clothes.' "

" After graduating college in 2010, I got to work - writing and co-writing all the time, playing and touring in bands, playing for other people's bands, working in coffee shops all over town. "

" When I was growing up, my dad would always be playing Motown around the house. He loved Stevie Wonder and the Supremes and got me into Dionne Warwick. It was the best music I'd ever heard. It was just that extremely deep, human, thought-out stream of ideas. You can always hear something new when you listen to that music. "

" You go through so many changes, especially in your twenties. "

" I come from the most normal family. I've always been the oddball. "

" Who doesn't love a Disney princess, and who wouldn't want to be one? Belle is my favorite. She's the smart, awkward, and adventurous. She doesn't have too many friends - goes off and hangs out with talking silverware. I think it's great. "

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" I was poor. I struggled big time, living hand to mouth so I could be the kind of artist I want to be. "

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" I love how controversial pink is. Men still feel uncomfortable wearing pink. It's ridiculous. "

" I blindly loved music and never once questioned if I was weird or not. I didn't care. Still don't! "

" It is like an addiction: I get addicted to performing and touring. I get itchy and think, 'I've got to do this.' "

" I want to talk about things that are actually important. "

" I'm a real musician's musician: I get really geeky on chords and arrangements. "