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" I'm one of those people who don't want to share anything 'til it's a done deal. "

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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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" I do always write from a personal place. "

" Nashville has pushed me to improve constantly as few other places could, and I'm grateful for that. "

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

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

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

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

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

" There are a lot more variables with festivals than just playing in a venue. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" After graduating college in 2010, I got to work - writing and co-writing all the time, playing and touring in bands, playing for other people's bands, working in coffee shops all over town. "