Soccer Mommy

“When I released 'Songs From My Bedroom'... that's the one that people started actually listening to.”

“It's not that I can't collaborate. It's just that I don't know how to say no to people. If someone's like, 'Let's write a song together,' it's like, 'You'll write the song, and I'm gonna okay everything.' It's very hard to think that their ideas work with what I'm trying to do.”

“Mitski is an influence to me as a writer.”

“I thought that I wouldn't be able to make it because I'm a girl, but I think it was just a subconscious feeling. Pretty much every gig I went to was a band with four dudes.”

“'Under My Skin' was the first CD I ever owned.”

“I kind of tend to write a lot of songs, so it's never too hard for me to finish an album; it's more about just getting enough songs that I really love.”

“Moving gave me confidence. I was really reclusive when I first moved. I stayed home a lot or went to shows alone. But by the second semester of my freshman year, I started making friends.”

“'Still Clean' discusses the hopelessness of waiting for someone who's abandoned you.”

“Sadly, you can't just pretend that you haven't seen the creepy things that people have said about you. It's something that gets in your brain.”

“Social media being used to discover new artists is great. There's not a barrier to enter the industry. People can just post music and share it. And if it's good enough, and people like it, it will grow.”

“I've always wanted to do stuff to help encourage more women to play, whether it's booking women on my shows at home, even when I was just playing DIY shows, or booking benefit shows and having all women play.”