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

- Alex Winston

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…

- Alex Winston

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…

- Alex Winston

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…

- Alex Winston

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.

- Alex Winston

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…

- Alex Winston

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. …

- Alex Winston

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…

- Alex Winston

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.

- Alex Winston