Musician

I've always had an instrument attached to my body.

I've always measured a good day as one where I can read, write, and run.

It's really easy to go viral, but I think it's really hard then to have a career.

Folk music usually romanticises the road. 'Back in my Body' tells the opposite story.

People want to see a magical fairytale story, but the reality is that I spent a lot of time making music alone in my bedroom.

I reached a place where I wanted to make more music, but I didn't know what I wanted. So I stopped labeling music by genre and just got into a studio to be creative. Now I write whatever feels instinctive.

I'm a private person. I am quiet.

I'm kind of a terrible musician. I'm a very functional musician. I play just about every instrument in a band setting, functionally. But I should not be taking solos.

When you're super passionate about something, you're more willing to do all of the grunt work. You know, like, I'm so willing to live on a bus for my whole life because that means I get that one moment on stage or that one moment in the studio that totally fills me.

I played in orchestras all through high school and taught myself how to play guitar.

I just didn't really know who I was, so I didn't really know what I sounded like. And so I did a lot of writing, and I studied abroad, and I fell in love, and, like... I got to be like any other college student.

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.

The make-up and the costumes were me being scared. I needed to create a boundary between me and the audience. To project this bigger version of myself. Outwardly, it looked good, but inwardly, I began to feel horrible.

I come from such a small place, and I've always really thought that if you make good music, then people will find it.

When I got to NYU, I had applied based on playing folk music, and they said, 'You're the banjo girl,' so I thought ,'OK, I'm the banjo girl.'

It took me two years to write 'Fallingwater,' but it's one of my favorite pieces I've ever made, and it was worth waiting for.

'Dog Years' is sort of my way of saying goodbye and 'see you soon' to my friends from college.

I find, as a woman and as a producer, I spend a lot of time convincing people I actually did the work.

I listened to birds and crickets, looking for the ways that rhythm appears most naturally in the world. I listened to the Smithsonian's field recordings of pygmy choirs from Africa.

I got the craziest crash course in rock n' roll that I could have ever dreamed of.