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

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don’t suffer if you know you’re loved and valued.

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 am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it.

My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.

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.

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