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

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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.' "

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

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

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

" 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 do always write from a personal place. "

" 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 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. "

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

" Music is all I've ever done. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "