Quotes from Maggie Rogers

I find, as a woman and as a producer, I spend a lot of time convincing people I actually did the work.

I want to have a long career. But that's based on wanting people to buy into my voice and not into a fabricated image.

People want to see a magical fairytale story, but the reality is that I spent a lot of time making music alone in my bedroom.

I'm a feminist, so it's just a really nice creative energy to work with a lot of women.

I'm kind of a terrible musician. I'm a very functional musician. I play just about every instrument in a band setting, functionally. But I should not be taking solos.

Folk music usually romanticises the road. 'Back in my Body' tells the opposite story.

When I got to NYU, I had applied based on playing folk music, and they said, 'You're the banjo girl,' so I thought ,'OK, I'm the banjo girl.'

I dress as a combination of space cowgirl and San Francisco art teacher.

What I love about going home is that, if I turn my phone off or don't open my computer, nothing's changed. Obviously, the world has changed for me, but home looks and feels exactly the same.

I come from such a small place, and I've always really thought that if you make good music, then people will find it.

I always saw myself as this quiet, introspective, thoughtful person.

I reached a place where I wanted to make more music, but I didn't know what I wanted. So I stopped labeling music by genre and just got into a studio to be creative. Now I write whatever feels instinctive.

'Dog Years' is sort of my way of saying goodbye and 'see you soon' to my friends from college.

When you're super passionate about something, you're more willing to do all of the grunt work. You know, like, I'm so willing to live on a bus for my whole life because that means I get that one moment on stage or that one moment in the studio that totally fills me.

I know some artists who write every day, and for a while, I felt really guilty that I didn't.

I really want to make a great record, like my 'Rumours' or 'Thriller.'

When someone said, 'Let's go to a club' in New York, it often meant heels and tight dresses and money.

For me, it's important to ask what are you making, and what's the public's relationship to that. And I say public relationship because I don't really care so much about any sort of reception.

I spend a lot of time reading and try to make sure that I can get a little bit of alone time every day.

I like songs that you can have both the physical release and an emotional release.

I've never made R&B. I've never made gospel. I've never made hip-hop - I don't think I'm going to, but I just want to keep challenging myself.

The make-up and the costumes were me being scared. I needed to create a boundary between me and the audience. To project this bigger version of myself. Outwardly, it looked good, but inwardly, I began to feel horrible.

Ask about music growing up, I'll tell you I grew up playing classical music, and I didn't grow up in a musical household.

I think one of the most important things for creativity is boredom.