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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 come from the most normal family. I've always been the oddball. "

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

" I'm not really a trend person. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Music is all I've ever done. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Women are against women, and men are against women. Like, women have to rise above so much to get ahead. I feel guilty that sometimes I hate being a woman. I hate it because there's so much weight on your shoulders at all times. Maybe I'm just really sensitive. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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