Top 30 Soccer Mommy Quotes

I didn’t make music until I was about 18. I’d been playing my whole life, but I wasn’t putting it out because I didn’t feel like people would take it seriously. I thought people would be like, ‘It’s just like sad girl music – it’s like Taylor Swift.’

It’s hard for me to see myself as meaningful, but people seem to like my music, so who knows. Maybe my music is empowering some more young women to pick up songwriting/playing.

I thought that I wouldn’t be able to make it because I’m a girl, but I think it was just a subconscious feeling. Pretty much every gig I went to was a band with four dudes.

Moving gave me confidence. I was really reclusive when I first moved. I stayed home a lot or went to shows alone. But by the second semester of my freshman year, I started making friends.

I went through a lot of maturing in a year or two. I left all my best friends, and I didn’t really want to make new friends, so I spent a lot of time inside just being depressed.

I’ve played music since I was six, and I always wrote songs just for myself. I did it for fun, posting songs on Tumblr, Bandcamp, and Soundcloud. I didn’t think anyone would notice.

When I was younger, I definitely wish I had felt more… I just wish I had started actually putting out my music earlier because I didn’t do it until I graduated high school and felt like I was leaving. That’s mostly because I have never liked my voice a lot or been like a particularly great singer.

I’ve seen girls start playing music who have told me they were inspired by me.

I’ve had so many young girls come up to me after a show and say, ‘How do I start putting my music on Bandcamp?’ or ‘I used to play music, but I don’t anymore, and I really want to start writing again.’ That’s just the most amazing feeling.

It’s really cathartic to play my songs live. I’m a really non-confrontational person, so my songs are kind of like all the things I never get to say to anyone.

It’s not that I can’t collaborate. It’s just that I don’t know how to say no to people. If someone‘s like, ‘Let’s write a song together,’ it’s like, ‘You’ll write the song, and I’m gonna okay everything.’ It’s very hard to think that their ideas work with what I’m trying to do.

I have to not let anything get to me and not get an ego about it and just do what I want to do, do things because I like them, and make the music that I like unapologetically.

Being a guitarist was scary, honestly, as a girl in Nashville. It just felt like no one was gonna ask me to be in a band and play guitar, like I never was gonna get asked to do that.

I’m not really a sports girl anymore – I used to be a huge sports girl.

When I released ‘Songs From My Bedroom‘… that’s the one that people started actually listening to.

I never thought I would get signed to a label.

When I signed my first record deal, I brought it over to my lawyer to look over.

I’ve always wanted to do stuff to help encourage more women to play, whether it’s booking women on my shows at home, even when I was just playing DIY shows, or booking benefit shows and having all women play.

I haven‘t had a terrible relationship, but I’ve always been the type in a relationship to give too much and not speak out about problems I had or problems that were bothering me. I just wouldn’t stand up for myself in any way if I was upset about something.

Playing all the time keeps you on everybody‘s mind.

A lot of music that’s my favorite doesn’t sound like the music I write.

‘Your Dog‘ I tried to re-record at my house, like, four times after the studio recordings were done.

I kind of tend to write a lot of songs, so it’s never too hard for me to finish an album; it’s more about just getting enough songs that I really love.

I got a toy guitar at a fundraiser and was trying to write songs with it that were ridiculous. After a week, my parents bought me a real acoustic guitar, and I started taking guitar lessons.

Those reflective moments for me usually come from loneliness and separation from people.

I don’t really idolize artists.

I don’t talk with people about how I am feeling – I just usually write a song about it.

When a lot of people think about how to be business-savvy as an artist, they think about how to brand themselves. At the end of the day, that stuff doesn’t really help you. People know when you’re being fake.

I feel like a crazy person all the time, and I feel like people are watching me, and I feel paranoid.

I am way too competitive! I get so crazy that I don’t even care.