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" If you want to make something of yourself, you have to just do it relentlessly. "
Natalie Prass
Yourself
Just
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" I've always been very shy. Now I don't care anymore. "
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" I'm a very loyal and compassionate person. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" Stevie Wonder is obviously the master at political music that's for everybody, that's still joyful. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm a real musician's musician: I get really geeky on chords and arrangements. "
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" I love wearing dresses, but more simplistic, classic-looking dresses. "
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" 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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" I don't think I'm the most talented musician or the best singer, but I work really, really hard. "
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" I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean. "
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" I've never wanted to be like anybody else. I'm me. "
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" I wasn't taken seriously being the only girl playing in band growing up. "
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" Audrey Hepburn is a huge influence on my style. She's classy, confident, and simplistic. She's a tomboy and also super feminine. "
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" I do always write from a personal place. "
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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 come from the most normal family. I've always been the oddball. "
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