A California-based singer/songwriter, her lyric video got voted onto MTV and she has over 1.3 million Likes on her Facebook page. When she was just ten years old she was teaching piano to approximately 25 students. She talks about the label she is signed with, her latest single, her previous releases, and how growing up as the oldest of eight children with no TV in the house and not being allowed to listen to the likes of the Rolling Stones or The Beatles shaped the songwriter – and the person – she has become.
“I didn’t realize how long the process of supporting an album and singles is.”
“I’ll just keep on making music until there is no more.”
“There isn’t as much willingness to let you find exactly what your artistic voice is. You have a lot of pressure to just make all the money back right off the bat and have that hit single.”
“What I want is a song that translates to everybody and does have that ability to reach masses.”
“If you just make a self-indulgent art project, you will delight some people, and your most intense, loving fans will just love it, but it won’t necessarily reach as many people. You have to be smart. You have to walk the line of art and commerce.”
“I don’t think that music should be free, but at the same time I didn’t think that the other model was working at all.”
“If you are willing to work really really hard, and,… if you have a desire to take charge of every single aspect of your vision, you have tools for everything you want.”
“I actually started teaching when I was 10. I was 10 and I had, like, 25 piano students. I was a very hardworking, responsible little girl.”
“The music that was in me was beating so hard to get out.”
"Battle Cry"
"Heart Over Heels"