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

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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 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'm a very loyal and compassionate person. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 not really a trend person. "

" Music is all I've ever done. "

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

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

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

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

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