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" I'm a real musician's musician: I get really geeky on chords and arrangements. "

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" Who doesn't love a Disney princess, and who wouldn't want to be one? Belle is my favorite. She's the smart, awkward, and adventurous. She doesn't have too many friends - goes off and hangs out with talking silverware. I think it's great. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean. "

" 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. "