Last year I was 16, it was my first round of releasing music. Since then I've been working more on having an identity as an artist and really figuring out what it is that I want to talk about and how I want to sound.
I wasn't a big Air Force 1 person until I started buying custom ones.
I want my fans to be able to approach me in public and not think that I'm some robot who only exists online.
I write a lot of my own music. I usually go in with a producer, and every now and then there will be another writer in the room.
I just kind of talk about what's happening in my life and it's kind of like a therapy session. Usually something good comes out of that. Or sometimes other writers will come to me with ideas and then I'll put my own spin on it. It's usually really collaborative and open and it's very therapeutic for me as well.
But the more that people got to know me and my personality, the more I connected with my fans and made friends, and people got to see more of my life.
I've decided that I'm not going to filter as much of what I post, because what's the point?
I wasn't aware of social media fame, it was more just making videos with my friends.
I realized early on that my fans are pretty young. 'My Story' is quite a young song and I think it's a good introduction because I have something to grow from.
I take inspiration from my own experiences and from other people's experiences.
I always pull from something I know really well. Because I would never want to write about something that I hadn't experienced or that I hadn't witnessed happen to somebody else because it wouldn't be genuine.
My favorite aspect of music is the performance part!
Sublime is one of my favorite bands; I've been listening to them my whole life.
That's the mindset I'm in, is do what I can do, do what I can control, and stay productive. I feel like it can get depressing really fast, being home and not having anything to do. I think being productive is important.
I'm not a big celebration person, I don't need a big party. I just want to hang.
It was not a difficult decision to leave school, it was really easy.
Routine is part of coping.
No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters.
No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.
I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.
Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to L.A.
I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.
The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.
I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.
It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.
