Audrey Hepburn is a huge influence on my style. She's classy, confident, and simplistic. She's a tomboy and also super feminine.
My dad gave me the 'Introducing Dionne Warwick' album when I was, like, 14. It was the first time I'd heard Burt Bacharach's songwriting and her voice, and it rocked my world. She's such a great singer and communicator. It really helped me shape my own style.
That's what's so wonderful about collaborating: your idea can explode and become something else.
I'm a very loyal and compassionate person.
I wasn't taken seriously being the only girl playing in band growing up.
Who doesn't love a Disney princess, and who wouldn't want to be one? Belle is my favorite. She's the smart, awkward, and adventurous. She doesn't have too many friends - goes off and hangs out with talking silverware. I think it's great.
I've always been very shy. Now I don't care anymore.
I do always write from a personal place.
My kind of retro-sounding songs, or whatever you want to call them, aren't for everybody.
I'm the kind of writer that, once I get into writing mode in my brain, I'm non-stop.
Nashville has pushed me to improve constantly as few other places could, and I'm grateful for that.
I'm not really a trend person.
I get kind of nervous in crowds, so a musical festival would never be something I would go to, unless I was playing.
When I made dog sweaters, as goofy as that was, I made this product, and people could buy it, and I got money immediately. Music was just this ethereal land of maybe, a lot of waiting and waiting. You live your life around hoping you get a five-thousand-dollar royalty check that usually doesn't come.
My dad had his own business and was extremely busy, but on a very rare occasion, he would play guitar and sing a bit. I was always fascinated by it. I wrote my first song in first grade because my dad was making songs up during those special moments, and it seemed like a fun thing to try myself.
I'm definitely someone who's really picky about who I work with and how I want things to go, because I have a high standard of integrity for my music. I want it to be genuine.
After graduating college in 2010, I got to work - writing and co-writing all the time, playing and touring in bands, playing for other people's bands, working in coffee shops all over town.
I don't think I'm the most talented musician or the best singer, but I work really, really hard.
I'm really into the 'classic' thing - the craft of writing something that will last, that won't die by next year.
I had a fairy shrine in my room, and I went to fairy LARPing camp, and I played Dungeons and Dragons in the woods.
