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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Break-up albums are the best kind. "

" I do always write from a personal place. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" You go through so many changes, especially in your twenties. "

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

" 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. "

" If you want to make something of yourself, you have to just do it relentlessly. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

" 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'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 always been very shy. Now I don't care anymore. "

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

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