I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
I don't think I'm alone in this: I'm obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don't put much thought into.
My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
I don't want to be elitist.
I tend to kind of try to use what's in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don't already have.
I don't really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that's closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
I'm so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
I couldn't wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn't actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don't really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that's what I wanted to do.
Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
When I record, it's this very precious and insular thing.
I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
I was one of those girls people called 'intense.'
I'm punk, but I love gold.
It's very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
There's this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we're supposed to hate each other, and that's totally not productive.
I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to.
I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record... that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
