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" When a lot of people think about how to be business-savvy as an artist, they think about how to brand themselves. At the end of the day, that stuff doesn't really help you. People know when you're being fake. "

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" When I was younger, I definitely wish I had felt more... I just wish I had started actually putting out my music earlier because I didn't do it until I graduated high school and felt like I was leaving. That's mostly because I have never liked my voice a lot or been like a particularly great singer. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was totally a Bandcamp person. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Playing all the time keeps you on everybody's mind. "

" When I released 'Songs From My Bedroom'... that's the one that people started actually listening to. "

" 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. "

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

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" I've seen girls start playing music who have told me they were inspired by me. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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 don't really idolize artists. "

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" 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. "

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" Those reflective moments for me usually come from loneliness and separation from people. "

" I was definitely thinking I'd go to college and make music on the side. "

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" I am way too competitive! I get so crazy that I don't even care. "

" I was just happy with having friends that I liked and going to shows that I wanted to see. "

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

" When I signed my first record deal, I brought it over to my lawyer to look over. "

" 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 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. "