It's hard for me to see myself as meaningful, but people seem to like my music, so who knows. Maybe my music is empowering some more young women to pick up songwriting/playing.
'Still Clean' discusses the hopelessness of waiting for someone who's abandoned you.
I feel like a crazy person all the time, and I feel like people are watching me, and I feel paranoid.
I definitely learned stuff like advancing a show, what percentage I should be paid, what's going be in a contract I'm going sign.
I don't really idolize artists.
It hasn't been a conscious thing, like, 'I don't want to listen to a bunch of dudes,' but I genuinely like music by women better.
'Under My Skin' was the first CD I ever owned.
The summer after high school, I got a TASCAM because I had been writing a lot and thought it would be cool if I recorded stuff not just on my phone.
When I released 'Songs From My Bedroom'... that's the one that people started actually listening to.
It's not an easy thing to manage - school and being in a band.
I have to not let anything get to me and not get an ego about it and just do what I want to do, do things because I like them, and make the music that I like unapologetically.
A lot of music that's my favorite doesn't sound like the music I write.
Mitski is an influence to me as a writer.
I think I'm much more of a guitar-songwriter than a singer. I start with chords and then test out melodies rather than improvising over it.
I listen to a lot of Nashville local music, which, for the most part, is punk and grunge music but also alt-country stuff down here.
I love Grimes!
I got a toy guitar at a fundraiser and was trying to write songs with it that were ridiculous. After a week, my parents bought me a real acoustic guitar, and I started taking guitar lessons.
Those reflective moments for me usually come from loneliness and separation from people.
I've seen girls start playing music who have told me they were inspired by me.
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.
