As a producer, as a songwriter, I've spent a lot of time either in my bedroom or in studios, alone.
If you're not changing, you're not growing; you're not being present. Change is essential.
I dress as a combination of space cowgirl and San Francisco art teacher.
I think so many of the themes from the natural world mimic emotional themes in our lives.
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.
It's not like I see colours. It's just, for me, an incredibly strong association between music and colour.
I feel really held in being vulnerable. That's always been the kind of music that I've gravitated to as well, but to feel really supported by my audience in that is a real privilege.
The music industry is so cool because it's constantly changing.
Writer's block is your self-critic getting in the way, because creativity will just flow otherwise.
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.
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.
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.
I grew up in a really rural area in Maryland.
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.
I'm a feminist, so it's just a really nice creative energy to work with a lot of women.
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.
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.
'Alaska' was filmed at my family's farm in Maryland; 'Dog Years' was filmed at the summer camp I grew up going to in Maine.
It's been really fun to see what happens to my body when I don't have an instrument attached to it.
