The first song I wrote was called "You" and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. I remember them all because I used to always write terrible poetry. I keep all my notebooks.

When I was a teen, or like 18 to early 20s, I used to go to festivals all the time. I'd save all my money.

Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like a fluke.

I don't know anything except being female, so I don't know the opposite of it.

People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.

Smoke Ring for My Halo was the first album I bought of Kurt's Vile, and when I first listened to "Peeping Tomboy" I was really depressed and unemployed. But the lyrics are, "I don't want to work. I don't want to sit around all day frowning." I was like, "Ah! Yes!"

I try to write a lot and my process is kind of back and forth. I procrastinate a lot so when I do sit down to write, I'm pretty lazy at it. And it's such a frustrating thing sometimes - writing - when you don't do it all the time, you get that thing in your head that you have nothing to talk about and you can't write songs.