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" I've always been a writer. I've always loved words, ever since I was a kid. "

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" I've been the person who hides behind people and lets everyone else do their thing, and I've been content there. "

" I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them. "

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" My sister was the singer, and I always had the mentality there could only be one in the family. "

" If I get writer's block - this is going to sound funny - I take a shower. Something about the water feels like I'm cleaning my brain as well as my body. "

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" I grew up in Davenport, Iowa, but I moved to Santa Clarita, California, when I was 6. "

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" My favorite food is hot Cheetos. I could eat those every day. "

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" Women often don't want to be typecast as the girl that's sad. "

" It never feels like work. I get to go to the studio and be with my friends every day and write new things and experiment with new sounds. We just have a blast. "

" I'm a very stimulated person. "

" I could make apple pie every single day. You need to be super precise in order for it to be perfect. I'm such a perfectionist that baking is calming for me. I've never burnt anything, thank God. "

" I've written poetry most of my life. "

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" I definitely always thought of myself as a songwriter before a singer. "

" It's ingrained in people's minds that it's a typecast and a stereotype that women are just emotional and crazy. "

" An artist could have a really big relationship, and then they break up, and any song after that, people are automatically going to assume that that song is about that person. "

" Stylistically, things are becoming cooler. People are trying different things and combining genres. "

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" I had all these singles come out within a two-month period, and then nothing for almost two years. You start to feel a little irrelevant. You realize how many people there are trying to be songwriters and how competitive it is and how political things can be. "