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I never doubted the music.
I'm a private person. I am quiet.
I've always wanted to play violin.
I studied abroad my junior year of college.
I grew up in a really rural area in Maryland.
I've always had an instrument attached to my body.
Bjork - she wears really weird stuff, and it's amazing.
My goal really was to make pop music feel as human as possible.
The music industry is so cool because it's constantly changing.
I love pop music. It's just fun, and it feels good, and it's easy.
The main rhythmic loop in 'Alaska' is me just patting on my jeans.
I think one of the most important things for creativity is boredom.
I always saw myself as this quiet, introspective, thoughtful person.
When I'm joking around, I'll say I'm a pop star, because it's silly.
I didn't actually start playing the banjo until I was in high school.
I really want to make a great record, like my 'Rumours' or 'Thriller.'
I've always measured a good day as one where I can read, write, and run.
I dress as a combination of space cowgirl and San Francisco art teacher.
Lyrically, I've always thought about albums as a record of a period of time.
It's really easy to go viral, but I think it's really hard then to have a career.
I got the craziest crash course in rock n' roll that I could have ever dreamed of.
I like songs that you can have both the physical release and an emotional release.
I played in orchestras all through high school and taught myself how to play guitar.
Folk music usually romanticises the road. 'Back in my Body' tells the opposite story.
I grew up writing songs and producing music, and I studied music production in college.
I'm a feminist, so it's just a really nice creative energy to work with a lot of women.
I think so many of the themes from the natural world mimic emotional themes in our lives.
If you're not changing, you're not growing; you're not being present. Change is essential.
New York is so strange. Every time I'm there, I very rarely see someone who's dressed cool.
I know some artists who write every day, and for a while, I felt really guilty that I didn't.
'Dog Years' is sort of my way of saying goodbye and 'see you soon' to my friends from college.
Graduating from college and starting your life as an adult is a giant transition no matter what.
What I love more than anything in the entire world is making music. It's what I studied in school.
Music is about connecting with people on a personal level and doing that one set of ears at a time.
As a producer, as a songwriter, I've spent a lot of time either in my bedroom or in studios, alone.
It's been really fun to see what happens to my body when I don't have an instrument attached to it.
Writer's block is your self-critic getting in the way, because creativity will just flow otherwise.
When someone said, 'Let's go to a club' in New York, it often meant heels and tight dresses and money.
I find, as a woman and as a producer, I spend a lot of time convincing people I actually did the work.
I spend a lot of time reading and try to make sure that I can get a little bit of alone time every day.
It's not like I see colours. It's just, for me, an incredibly strong association between music and colour.
That's why people come to live music, right? To see something go wrong, something human, something vulnerable.
Ask me my influences, I always talk about Bjork and Beck because they're independent voices in the music industry.
I do play a lot of instruments. I started with the harp when I was young and then sort of moved to guitar and piano.
I come from such a small place, and I've always really thought that if you make good music, then people will find it.
I want to have a long career. But that's based on wanting people to buy into my voice and not into a fabricated image.
The craziest thing is I didn't know I could sing like this - ever. My voice has changed, or I've grown into it, woken up.
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.
I spent my whole life in Maryland, but I wanted to experience more - fighting to get to urban areas where there was culture.