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" 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. "

Natalie Prass

Music

Hope

Personality

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Great

Time

" Music is all I've ever done. "

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

" I'm not really a trend person. "

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

" I've always been very shy. Now I don't care anymore. "

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

" 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. "

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Friends

Community

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

Natalie Prass

Alone

You

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm the kind of writer that, once I get into writing mode in my brain, I'm non-stop. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I do always write from a personal place. "

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

" If you want to make something of yourself, you have to just do it relentlessly. "

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