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“I've learned that I'm a lot stronger than I thought I was.”
“I like songs that you can have both the physical release and an emotional release.”
“I've always been a very visual creator. I make mood boards or sit with coloured pencils and scribble and try and figure out what I'm trying to work through musically.”
“Writer's block is your self-critic getting in the way, because creativity will just flow otherwise.”
“Something really intense happened to me during the 'SNL' performance. It felt like the person I was made to be faced the person I'm becoming. It was the first time I felt like I was able to make any sense of ownership of my work.”
“I'm kind of a funny writer because I write very sporadically.”
“Ask about music growing up, I'll tell you I grew up playing classical music, and I didn't grow up in a musical household.”
“Music is the most amount of joy or good I can do in the world.”
“Part of success is having a good story, and as a journalist, I totally understand. But it meant that my many, many years of focus and hard work got kind of prepackaged into a Cinderella story. I'm super grateful that it happened, but it left me feeling like I never got to be a full human in the experience.”
“This job forces you to ask yourself so many questions: Do you want money? Do you want power? Do you just want to be good at your craft? I don't know what I'm doing. I just want to be happy. But I know I have to keep making music.”
“New York is so strange. Every time I'm there, I very rarely see someone who's dressed cool.”
“When I got to NYU, I had applied based on playing folk music, and they said, 'You're the banjo girl,' so I thought ,'OK, I'm the banjo girl.'”
“I spent my whole life in Maryland, but I wanted to experience more - fighting to get to urban areas where there was culture.”
“The thing about fans is you don't get to choose your own. But every time I meet a fan, I'm like, wow, we would totally be at the same house party.”
“'Dog Years' is sort of my way of saying goodbye and 'see you soon' to my friends from college.”
“I think, as a musician, or even as a citizen of the world, I just want to be a part of something or feel connected to something bigger than myself.”
“The reality is my career started with a song that wasn't finished and a video I didn't know was going on the Internet. It happened so out of my control.”
“When I was little, my mum would take me to see the orchestra, tell me to close my eyes and think about the story the music was telling. I always spoke about colours. I'd talk about how purple the oboe was.”
“In terms of my voice, I'm very clear about who I am as a person and what I think.”
“I got the craziest crash course in rock n' roll that I could have ever dreamed of.”