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" When I was growing up, my dad would always be playing Motown around the house. He loved Stevie Wonder and the Supremes and got me into Dionne Warwick. It was the best music I'd ever heard. It was just that extremely deep, human, thought-out stream of ideas. You can always hear something new when you listen to that music. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

" Break-up albums are the best kind. "

" Gospel talks about life's struggles, but you always feel like it recognizes these struggles and that you can overcome them. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Music is all I've ever done. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I think it's just my personality, or maybe just because I've been playing music for so long and working so hard at it, that I don't expect anything from it anymore. I just do my work and then hope that it works out. "

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

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" I had a fairy shrine in my room, and I went to fairy LARPing camp, and I played Dungeons and Dragons in the woods. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm really into the 'classic' thing - the craft of writing something that will last, that won't die by next year. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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