Obviously, you've spent some time in New York. I moved there and it was a bit much. It was a bit overwhelming for me. I didn't want to go out. I just….

I do feel like L.A. has a very supportive and collaborative energy. I felt that in New York too but also there's so much space here! You can have a h….

I tried to take a few community college classes, but it got in the way of music, so I stopped. I had real life college and traveling on the road coll….

I hate saying I'm a new musician, because I've been doing this forever, but they like to put new musicians on a lot of weird bills..

I feel like I've been doing performing my entire life. I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten. I didn't have one of those cr….

I'm actually one of the few kids in my grade, especially girls, who didn't end up going to college, just because I already knew what I wanted to do. ….

I love country, folk, and strong female voices, like Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton, PJ Harvey, and Kate Bush..

I call my backup singers my sister wives. To me, they are my best friends. We are all super close. It's kind of like the closest relationship you can….

I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, b….

I grew up listening to a lot of that stuff, Motown and Stooges. But also early rock-and-roll like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and E….

The influence is really all over the place. Detroit, definitely because of Motown and Stooges. When you come from a place like Detroit, you're really….

I went from living in my dad's basement to moving to New York. So I never had that middle ground of easing into adulthood..

I felt that I really couldn't be creative with opera. You're supposed to sound this way here. You're supposed to crescendo here. You're supposed to d….