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….

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 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 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 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….

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

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….

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 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..