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" I've struggled with self-esteem and depression, like most singer-songwriters. I listen to my EPs on Bandcamp, and I can just hear the pain and the self-esteem struggle in my voice. "

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" 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. "

Natalie Prass

Women

Rise Above

Woman

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

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

" I'm a very loyal and compassionate person. "

" I do what I want to do instead of what other people think I should do, and I'm kind of stubborn that way. "

" I'm not really a trend person. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

Natalie Prass

Friends

Community

" 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've never wanted to be like anybody else. I'm me. "

Natalie Prass

Anybody

Else

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Natalie Prass

Great

Time

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Natalie Prass

Alone

You

" I wasn't taken seriously being the only girl playing in band growing up. "

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