Audrey Hepburn is a huge influence on my style. She's classy, confident, and simplistic. She's a tomboy and also super feminine.
Natalie Prass
I'm a very loyal and compassionate person.
I love wearing dresses, but more simplistic, classic-looking dresses.
That's what's so wonderful about collaborating: your idea can explode and become something else.
I get kind of nervous in crowds, so a musical festival would never be something I would go to, unless I was playing.
I do always write from a personal place.
Nashville has pushed me to improve constantly as few other places could, and I'm grateful for that.
My kind of retro-sounding songs, or whatever you want to call them, aren't for everybody.
I'm the kind of writer that, once I get into writing mode in my brain, I'm non-stop.
I wasn't taken seriously being the only girl playing in band growing up.
I'm not really a trend person.
My dad gave me the 'Introducing Dionne Warwick' album when I was, like, 14. It was the first time I'd heard Burt Bacharach's songwriting and her voice, and it rocked my world. She's such a great singer and communicator. It really helped me shape my own style.
When I made dog sweaters, as goofy as that was, I made this product, and people could buy it, and I got money immediately. Music was just this ethereal land of maybe, a lot of waiting and waiting. You live your life around hoping you get a five-thousand-dollar royalty check that usually doesn't come.
I've always been very shy. Now I don't care anymore.
My dad had his own business and was extremely busy, but on a very rare occasion, he would play guitar and sing a bit. I was always fascinated by it. I wrote my first song in first grade because my dad was making songs up during those special moments, and it seemed like a fun thing to try myself.
Who doesn't love a Disney princess, and who wouldn't want to be one? Belle is my favorite. She's the smart, awkward, and adventurous. She doesn't have too many friends - goes off and hangs out with talking silverware. I think it's great.
I'm definitely someone who's really picky about who I work with and how I want things to go, because I have a high standard of integrity for my music. I want it to be genuine.
After graduating college in 2010, I got to work - writing and co-writing all the time, playing and touring in bands, playing for other people's bands, working in coffee shops all over town.
I don't think I'm the most talented musician or the best singer, but I work really, really hard.
I'm really into the 'classic' thing - the craft of writing something that will last, that won't die by next year.
I had a fairy shrine in my room, and I went to fairy LARPing camp, and I played Dungeons and Dragons in the woods.
I used to come home and play piano all day by ear and make songs up or figure out my favourite Elvis songs. I'd make up games by blindfolding myself and singing the harmony to whatever notes I'd play.
I blindly loved music and never once questioned if I was weird or not. I didn't care. Still don't!
Growing up, I had a natural love for women like Diana Ross, Mary Wells, Ella Fitzgerald. Then I got into Dionne Warwick, Nina Simone, and Patsy Cline.
Music is all I've ever done.
I come from the most normal family. I've always been the oddball.
I've never wanted to be like anybody else. I'm me.
I try as hard as I can to write from a personal place and be genuine.
I'm a real musician's musician: I get really geeky on chords and arrangements.
My path has been a little weird. I hope that it can inspire people.
Like Lenny Kravitz, I wanna make the world a better place; I wanna unify people.
Gospel talks about life's struggles, but you always feel like it recognizes these struggles and that you can overcome them.
There came a point when I was thinking, 'I'm now 26, 27, working on music every day, but I'm not making, like, a lot of money. What's happening? I guess I'll just start making dog clothes.'
Break-up albums are the best kind.
We still have so far to go as a country. People don't like to listen to women or take orders from them. I feel that a lot as a woman playing music.
Stevie Wonder is obviously the master at political music that's for everybody, that's still joyful.
I got offered publishing deals to write country music, but it was not what I wanted to do.
I was poor. I struggled big time, living hand to mouth so I could be the kind of artist I want to be.
I'm pretty picky about what I do and who I work with, for better or for worse.
I'm one of those people who don't want to share anything 'til it's a done deal.
I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.
Music is what makes you feel joyful and makes me feel like I'm not alone. It's everything.
Music, for me, has always been a community thing. It's always how I make friends and hang out with people, because I didn't know how to do that. This is what makes me special.
I do what I want to do instead of what other people think I should do, and I'm kind of stubborn that way.
I think it's just my personality, or maybe just because I've been playing music for so long and working so hard at it, that I don't expect anything from it anymore. I just do my work and then hope that it works out.
I've always been in this weird indie world, and for a long time, I felt that it was not okay to be girly in that world.
Women are against women, and men are against women. Like, women have to rise above so much to get ahead. I feel guilty that sometimes I hate being a woman. I hate it because there's so much weight on your shoulders at all times. Maybe I'm just really sensitive.
It's an artist's choice to speak up about social issues, but I think it's really important, and my favorite artists have spoken out.
I want to talk about things that are actually important.
I love how controversial pink is. Men still feel uncomfortable wearing pink. It's ridiculous.
