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" The summer after high school, I got a TASCAM because I had been writing a lot and thought it would be cool if I recorded stuff not just on my phone. "

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" I didn't make music until I was about 18. I'd been playing my whole life, but I wasn't putting it out because I didn't feel like people would take it seriously. I thought people would be like, 'It's just like sad girl music - it's like Taylor Swift.' "

" It's not an easy thing to manage - school and being in a band. "

" Social media being used to discover new artists is great. There's not a barrier to enter the industry. People can just post music and share it. And if it's good enough, and people like it, it will grow. "

" You're always just going to be who you are. "

" Sadly, you can't just pretend that you haven't seen the creepy things that people have said about you. It's something that gets in your brain. "

" It's really cathartic to play my songs live. I'm a really non-confrontational person, so my songs are kind of like all the things I never get to say to anyone. "

" I thought that I wouldn't be able to make it because I'm a girl, but I think it was just a subconscious feeling. Pretty much every gig I went to was a band with four dudes. "

" I have to not let anything get to me and not get an ego about it and just do what I want to do, do things because I like them, and make the music that I like unapologetically. "

" It's hard for me to see myself as meaningful, but people seem to like my music, so who knows. Maybe my music is empowering some more young women to pick up songwriting/playing. "

" I never thought I would get signed to a label. "

" Mitski is an influence to me as a writer. "

" I kind of tend to write a lot of songs, so it's never too hard for me to finish an album; it's more about just getting enough songs that I really love. "

" I don't talk with people about how I am feeling - I just usually write a song about it. "

" A lot of music that's my favorite doesn't sound like the music I write. "

" I think all girls do struggle with image, despite not knowing what's going on with other people. "

" It's good to try and stay humble and down to earth, despite media and social media. "

" I think I'm much more of a guitar-songwriter than a singer. I start with chords and then test out melodies rather than improvising over it. "

" I was totally a Bandcamp person. "

" I love Grimes! "

" I went through a lot of maturing in a year or two. I left all my best friends, and I didn't really want to make new friends, so I spent a lot of time inside just being depressed. "

" 'Your Dog' I tried to re-record at my house, like, four times after the studio recordings were done. "

" I have more of a soccer dad. He was always the one taking us to sports practice. "

" I definitely learned stuff like advancing a show, what percentage I should be paid, what's going be in a contract I'm going sign. "

" I'm a huge fan of Joni Mitchell, and I think her music has inspired me lyrically and guitar-wise. "

" Being a guitarist was scary, honestly, as a girl in Nashville. It just felt like no one was gonna ask me to be in a band and play guitar, like I never was gonna get asked to do that. "

" I haven't had a terrible relationship, but I've always been the type in a relationship to give too much and not speak out about problems I had or problems that were bothering me. I just wouldn't stand up for myself in any way if I was upset about something. "

" I've always wanted to do stuff to help encourage more women to play, whether it's booking women on my shows at home, even when I was just playing DIY shows, or booking benefit shows and having all women play. "

" I've played music since I was six, and I always wrote songs just for myself. I did it for fun, posting songs on Tumblr, Bandcamp, and Soundcloud. I didn't think anyone would notice. "

" I think a lot of women could be making great music but still don't feel like they're capable - in fact, I know that's the case for a lot of young girls who try to do music. "

" It's not that I can't collaborate. It's just that I don't know how to say no to people. If someone's like, 'Let's write a song together,' it's like, 'You'll write the song, and I'm gonna okay everything.' It's very hard to think that their ideas work with what I'm trying to do. "