Her music has been heard on two ABC-TV shows and another on the CW, as well as on SiriusXM. John Mayer called her music, “Gorgeous. Simply gorgeous.” She has shared the stage with Paula Cole and Shawn Colvin, to name just two. She talks about all that, plus attending Berklee College of Music, moving to Nashville, the dramatic shift in her songwriting craft over the last month, and much more.
“The thing that I try to do is to never put myself in a box. I find that it kind of stifles my creativity.”
“I used to have a really hard time defining my genre, but then I realized I had a hard time defining everyone's genre pretty much. If I sit down one day and go, ‘I think I'm going to write a blues song or a jazz song or a country song,’ I've learned not to say, ‘But you’re not a country artist’… I kind of write whatever moves me that day, so, pop, folky, singer, songwriter-ish.”
“I just try to, when I'm writing, to have a totally judge free zone and not think ahead at all, just try to be in the moment and write whatever the song feels like it needs to be.”
“I was working with someone who basically had said, ‘Take the story out of your songs because if you wanted to (get) film placement, you can't be so specific.’ And while that is totally true it also was very hard to hear. I do think of songwriting as a way to tell stories and that's how I connect with people and such a huge part of what I do and it really sucked the life out of me.”
“I really try to find the balance between the two: telling a story and not over-telling the story, but every song is different. Some songs I've started writing them like, ‘Wow, I have never written anything like that before!”
"Memphis"
"Bad Habit"