Rolling Stone magazine deemed her the number one most robbed contestant on season four of "The Voice." She is currently in the midst of a two-year songwriting challenge, which had started off as a song-a-day for one year. Based in Memphis, she is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Her new album is releasing two days after this interview comes out.
"(Being on The Voice was) just a bootcamp for how to be a rock star. The level of experience that I got on that is something I'm very grateful for because I was not as confident on-stage until The Voice happened."
"They (The Voice) prepare you for three months for 90 seconds of your life."
"The whole point of (The Voice) isn't to have true artists make it. I feel like it's the really moldable, younger people who they need to go far who don't really quite know who they are yet. Those are the ones who really go far. Because it's a TV show at the end of the day."
"If you're doing something that's truly audacious, which is usually just being yourself, that's going to attract Rolling Stone (magazine)."
"You don't have to be so precious with your art, because the muse is just there to be used. It wants to be used. You don't have to treat it like something you sit around and wait for. Inspiration is a muscle. The truly great masters of any craft, they showed up for it every single day no matter how they felt."
"It was a big 180 in my life, the whole daily songwriting challenge."
"It was New Year's Eve 2017 and I was like, 'What the hell am I going to do with my career?' I've been touring for a long time and I just wanted something to shake everything up and do something that was audacious that no one else had done."
"I'm so anti-record label these days. They're so useless. They are absolutely just stifling for artists. I have so many horror stories from songwriter friends of mine that are just miserable... So, why not cut out the middle man and... just pick yourself and tap into your tribe."
"Your intellectual part of your brain should not be involved in the creative process."
"People are so scared. They come from such a place of scarcity with their creativity often times, because our society teaches us that, the music industry teaches artists to come from a place of scarcity with their creativity... It's not right. We all are innately very creative creatures."
"The music industry teaches artists that we need them, like we can't do anything on our own, that we need to completely rely on them. Which is not true anymore, especially in this day and age. It's wonderful. I'm so grateful to be an artist with all this technology now. It's amazing."
"It can be isolating to be an artist."
"To be a really, artist, quote unquote artist, and not just a musician, that's how - you have to learn multiple things. You have to broaden the portfolio, so to speak, diversify it. I feel like you're going to be taken way more seriously that way and go a lot farther, for sure."
"I always like to tell artists, think, think more about the way you post on Instagram. We're not just artists anymore, we are lifestyles. We are brands. We all are."
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