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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. "

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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. "

Natalie Prass

College

People

Work

" 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. "

Natalie Prass

Great

Time

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

" 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 driven and am also very stubborn. "

" Music is all I've ever done. "

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

" I'm not really a trend person. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Natalie Prass

Friends

Community

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

" Music is what makes you feel joyful and makes me feel like I'm not alone. It's everything. "

Natalie Prass

Alone

You

" Break-up albums are the best kind. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Who doesn't love a Disney princess, and who wouldn't want to be one? Belle is my favorite. She's the smart, awkward, and adventurous. She doesn't have too many friends - goes off and hangs out with talking silverware. I think it's great. "

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

Natalie Prass

Anybody

Else

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

" 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. "

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

" I do always write from a personal place. "

" If you want to be a songwriter, you've got to obsess over it. "