The hard part was when I went into the studio with co-producer Eric Broucek, and he started slashing my demos. I always sweat that.

Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.

I just love music, so that's what I'm always working on, and I try to say yes a lot. Maybe I'm more ambitious than I thought I was.

I tend to work on a song, generate ideas, and re-arrange it like five times, and I'm glad I take the time to do that, because I think my original songs come out better.

The hard part was when I went into the studio with co-producer Eric Broucek, and he started slashing my demos. I always sweat that.

It was definitely in my mind to do a solo album, but I didn't know it would take this long.

Certain people have the eye of the tiger, and I never was myself that kind of person, although I'm not a slacker.