I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because now it looks like a TV set, literally.

I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because thats where I practice and write and listen and study.

It's weird sometimes to have people not see me or see what I do.

Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.

There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.

There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.

People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.