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" I get kind of nervous in crowds, so a musical festival would never be something I would go to, unless I was playing. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" My dad gave me the 'Introducing Dionne Warwick' album when I was, like, 14. It was the first time I'd heard Burt Bacharach's songwriting and her voice, and it rocked my world. She's such a great singer and communicator. It really helped me shape my own style. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm definitely someone who's really picky about who I work with and how I want things to go, because I have a high standard of integrity for my music. I want it to be genuine. "

" 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. "

" I think it's just my personality, or maybe just because I've been playing music for so long and working so hard at it, that I don't expect anything from it anymore. I just do my work and then hope that it works out. "

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

" I've always been very driven and am also very stubborn. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Music is all I've ever done. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I've always liked playing with somebody else and collaborating, just to get out of my own head all the time. Everybody does, but artists especially, we torture ourselves. So it's good for me to immerse myself in somebody else's work. "

" My path has been a little weird. I hope that it can inspire people. "