00:00My dream artist to collaborate with.
00:03I mean, Beethoven's kind of the ultimate hit maker.
00:06He's got a very, very high success rate.
00:11Big fan.
00:12Action.
00:19I grew up in rural Maryland on the Eastern Shore, and I grew up very slowly.
00:29I feel like a lot of where my creativity started was just being really bored.
00:36And I think that's something that I think about now on purpose, trying to make space.
00:41I had to really fight to get to live music.
00:44I grew up two hours south of DC, basically.
00:47And so anytime I wanted to go see live music, I had to put it on the calendar and convince
00:54a very kind adult, usually my parents, to drive me the two hours each way to go see a show.
01:00And it became this thing that I was just totally obsessed with.
01:11Touring is wild because it's something that, like three years ago, I had never done.
01:14And now it has become such a intense, amazing part of my life.
01:21And it really is what I do full time.
01:24I mean, people ask me where I live and I live on a tour bus with 12 people, like full
01:27time.
01:28And it feels like an incredible privilege to get to travel and see the world and connect.
01:38I'm about to leave in two days to go play the Sydney Opera House, sold out, which is insane.
01:45Another, like, really, really special memory was playing Madison Square Garden with Mumford
01:51and Sons or playing Red Rocks with Haim and with Lizzo.
01:55It's those kind of moments of getting to share a stage, especially with artists I really respect
02:00and admire that stick with me the most.
02:05I really looked up to style icons like Patti Smith or Bjork or Chloe Sevigny because those
02:13are creators that sort of seem to break the rules because that's the thing is, like, there
02:18are no rules.
02:19Like, fashion is just about feeling like yourself and feeling inspired and it's also so much
02:26about playing.
02:27It's funny, my friends decided that my fashion alter ego is your mom's cool friend from pottery,
02:35which kind of, like, makes sense with my general vibe all the time, where I like to say it's
02:41a mix between a space cowgirl and a San Francisco art teacher, which maybe just is your mom's
02:46cool friend from pottery.
02:51Creating great art takes time and space.
02:53And the reality of having a real life and career as a creator is there is an insane amount
03:00of overstimulation.
03:02It's difficult to bring your guard down long enough to really, really honestly reflect and
03:08create.
03:09My songwriting process has a lot more to do with actively creating that space and time
03:14instead of being able to sort of catch songs as they come.
03:18A lot of my music I still make in my studio at my parents' house in Maryland, and a lot
03:23of this record is recorded there, and I can be really vulnerable when I'm there.
03:30My songwriting is how I figure out what I'm feeling.
03:32I can journal and I can talk to my friends, but when I sing I can't lie.
03:37I always measure a great creator by the distance between their brain and their instrument, and
03:44everything I learned in school and everything I'm doing now is just about shaping the vision
03:52and giving myself as many tools to make that distance between my brain and my instrument as
03:56small as possible.
03:58When I was in school I learned so much about engineering and production and contracts and
04:04microphones and polar patterns and signals and I now, when I walk into a studio, I know
04:12how to create the sounds I hear in my head.
04:14And when I walk into a boardroom, I know the legal terms to protect the work that I'm making.
04:21Knowledge is power.
04:26Inspiration can take a lot of different forms.
04:28I think I'm trying to stay open to the way it finds me in particular, and I think so much
04:32of it is just in the process of trying to be present or by living.
04:37I read a lot, which is where I get a lot of inspiration.
04:39I just really like words and I identify as a writer first.
04:44Writing is such a way for me to process my world and understand my world that I hope my
04:51music or me sharing my experience in a vulnerable human way can help somebody know that they're
04:58not alone or feel connected or know that somebody else feels the way they do.
05:18to you.
