A singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose new album is going into mixing and mastering, with hopes to release a single in the next month or two. She had several songs placed in movies and TV shows, and has toured the country playing over 700 clubs, theaters, festivals, TV shows, and radio stations. Among other topics, she discusses a four-month tour she’s planning for early next year, a recent endorsement deal that she got, and, being a mother and wife while being a touring artist.
“One thing that this record has been about from the beginning is, not forcing anything, letting everything be its absolute best by giving it the time it needed to do that instead of forcing deadlines on things like I always have in the past.”
“That’s why I wrote so many songs for this record, is, I said, basically, I want nothing to be a compromise about this next record. I want this to be – I’m going to self-title this record – so I want to feel like this is the epitome of my art at this time and feel fully behind every single note sung, every single note played, every single word said, every single emotion conveyed, every single ambient noise, feel that this is my heart and soul.”
“As I realized who I would be working with on the record, my game stepped up. It’s honestly amazing when you know that you’re going to be working with your dream team how much your dream self comes out if you give it a little bit of time.”
“What really helps is the personal connections along the way of people believing in you and telling you what a difference your music has made to them. Those personal connections were both a huge boon to making (her crowdfunding campaign) happen and also a huge boon to me being able to emotionally stay the course.”
“The best way, I think, to come at (a crowdfunding campaign) is to know the deeper purpose of why you’re making the record, I mean, furthermore, why you exist underneath that – what you will bring to people’s lives for that.”
“People want to treat crowdfunding like it’s a new thing. But, honestly, patrons, on a larger scale, have always been the basis for art, not some label or some production company. And so, this is as age old as Leonardo not wanting to go ask for patrons to make his paintings.”
“It’s the same reason I do ‘pay what you want,’ ‘pay what you can’ for albums at shows is that I want people – I don’t make the music to hide it away, I want people to have it if they want to have it.”
“I love the kazoo because it’s basically just a way to take your already, your voice that you use so much and turn it into this fun, quirky thing.”
“It’s much easier to feel the vibration of a guitar against you than the vibration of a piano against you. It’s something about that visceral experience of music is so important to me now that I’ve gotten to kind of this really organic period of my life where I want things to feel real and right and beautiful and honest, and that feels that for me.”
“Nothing fills my well back up, my heart well, as much as being able to cuddle with my kids in the morning and go make beautiful music at night.”
"Both Ways"
"Willowing"