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

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" My dad had his own business and was extremely busy, but on a very rare occasion, he would play guitar and sing a bit. I was always fascinated by it. I wrote my first song in first grade because my dad was making songs up during those special moments, and it seemed like a fun thing to try myself. "

" When you're that age - that middle-school age, early high school - you're changing. You're going crazy. So I put all of my energy into pretending I was someone else, battling and screaming and all that stuff - casting spells and getting into a whole fantasy world. It was really healthy for me. "

" I'm one of those people who don't want to share anything 'til it's a done deal. "

" 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. "

" If you want to be a songwriter, you've got to obsess over it. "

" Women are against women, and men are against women. Like, women have to rise above so much to get ahead. I feel guilty that sometimes I hate being a woman. I hate it because there's so much weight on your shoulders at all times. Maybe I'm just really sensitive. "

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

" There are a lot more variables with festivals than just playing in a venue. "

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

" I'm really into the 'classic' thing - the craft of writing something that will last, that won't die by next year. "

" Audrey Hepburn is a huge influence on my style. She's classy, confident, and simplistic. She's a tomboy and also super feminine. "

" I had a fairy shrine in my room, and I went to fairy LARPing camp, and I played Dungeons and Dragons in the woods. "

" 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 is all I've ever done. "

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

" I'm pretty picky about what I do and who I work with, for better or for worse. "

" I don't think I'm the most talented musician or the best singer, but I work really, really hard. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Gospel talks about life's struggles, but you always feel like it recognizes these struggles and that you can overcome them. "

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

" 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 had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean. "

" I love wearing dresses, but more simplistic, classic-looking dresses. "

" Stevie Wonder is obviously the master at political music that's for everybody, that's still joyful. "

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

" 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. "

" My kind of retro-sounding songs, or whatever you want to call them, aren't for everybody. "

" I'm such an emotional person that when it comes to songwriting, I can click into whatever zone I need. "