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“I'm not a religious person by any means. But I'm curious.”
“I think Chris Martin is younger than I am, but when I met him, I felt like I was talking to my father. It's so strange, that feeling when someone is that famous - you assume that they are either older or better.”
“Songs are really interesting in that way. Sometimes, they grow with you. Sometimes, you outgrow them.”
“I think regardless of where people are from, country music is a through line.”
“If you're a songwriter, you have to do homework. You can exist for a while on the inspiration, but at some point, you have to sit down and have the discipline to write - to finish the poem, as they say.”
“Sometimes you don't understand what you're going through until you're on the other side of it.”
“There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.”
“I am a huge hip-hop fan, and growing up, I only listened to hip-hop, so I dressed accordingly.”
“In your mid-30s, you have to take inventory, or you'll stumble.”
“As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.”
“When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.”
“I have a great work ethic - from watching Lucille Ball, not necessarily my own family.”
“Some shows suck, but I always - the show must go on. I learned it from my past as a child actor. The show must go on. You have to just keep on with it.”
“I think art doesn't have to be created in a period of misery, but it certainly helps.”
“I think the idea of opening up for a massive band is always better than actually doing it, and having your name on the ticket means more than the actual set.”
“That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I can show up with my guitar and my song, and it can sound a hundred different ways. That's the freedom of being on your own. The flipside is: That's you on the cover. If it sucks, it's your fault.”
“My mother had a great vinyl collection, and she was constantly playing female singer-songwriters. I first learned about classic song structures by listening to them, and Laura Nyro particularly stood out. Her voice was outside what you'd usually hear on the radio; that really appealed to me.”
“I'm obsessed with old rotary phones.”
“You can find me at three in the morning in my living room with a glass of wine and really bad '90s trip hop beats blaring from my headphones.”
“It's weird because I am accessible to people on Twitter, and I can choose to read good things or mean things, and people can reach out to me directly and tell me how much they hate me or love the song. It's a very strange new paradigm as an artist to find yourself among this kind of connectivity.”