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

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" After graduating college in 2010, I got to work - writing and co-writing all the time, playing and touring in bands, playing for other people's bands, working in coffee shops all over town. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Break-up albums are the best kind. "

" 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 such an emotional person that when it comes to songwriting, I can click into whatever zone I need. "

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

" 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 in this weird indie world, and for a long time, I felt that it was not okay to be girly in that world. "

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

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

" 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. "

" There came a point when I was thinking, 'I'm now 26, 27, working on music every day, but I'm not making, like, a lot of money. What's happening? I guess I'll just start making dog clothes.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I've always been very driven and am also very stubborn. "

" I'm not really a trend person. "

" Music is all I've ever done. "

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

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

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

" I do always write from a personal place. "