Maggie Rogers

“I've never made R&B. I've never made gospel. I've never made hip-hop - I don't think I'm going to, but I just want to keep challenging myself.”

“For me, it's important to ask what are you making, and what's the public's relationship to that. And I say public relationship because I don't really care so much about any sort of reception.”

“Everybody thinks that touring is really glamourous, but I pretty much sit in a room all day. I have a sort of office where I do emails, and I go for a run, and then at the end of the night, I go to bed. It's not like some crazy party.”

“The music industry is so cool because it's constantly changing.”

“I played in orchestras all through high school and taught myself how to play guitar.”

“Lyrically, I've always thought about albums as a record of a period of time.”

“My goal really was to make pop music feel as human as possible.”

“I just didn't really know who I was, so I didn't really know what I sounded like. And so I did a lot of writing, and I studied abroad, and I fell in love, and, like... I got to be like any other college student.”

“Graduating from college and starting your life as an adult is a giant transition no matter what.”

“I studied abroad my junior year of college.”

“It's not like I see colours. It's just, for me, an incredibly strong association between music and colour.”

“I just kind of, like, know who I am. I think that comes from having an incredibly strong sense of purpose for a very long time.”

“Ask me my influences, I always talk about Bjork and Beck because they're independent voices in the music industry.”

“I grew up in a really rural area in Maryland.”

“Musicians have been political literally since people were writing songs.”

“It's been really fun to see what happens to my body when I don't have an instrument attached to it.”

“What I love more than anything in the entire world is making music. It's what I studied in school.”

“I never doubted the music.”

“It's funny because, based on the music I was making before, if you'd asked me who was the one gatekeeper or influencer whom I'd want to hear my music, I don't think Pharrell would be the first person I'd pick.”

“I want to have a long career. But that's based on wanting people to buy into my voice and not into a fabricated image.”