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" 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. "

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" 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.' "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Like Lenny Kravitz, I wanna make the world a better place; I wanna unify people. "

" It's an artist's choice to speak up about social issues, but I think it's really important, and my favorite artists have spoken out. "

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

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

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

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

" I try as hard as I can to write from a personal place and be genuine. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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