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" 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

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

Natalie Prass

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

" 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'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. "

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

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

Natalie Prass

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

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

" 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 do always write from a personal place. "

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

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

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

" 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

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

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

Natalie Prass

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" 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. "

" I'm not really a trend person. "

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

" I want to talk about things that are actually important. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "