Quotes from Maggie Rogers

The thing about fans is you don't get to choose your own. But every time I meet a fan, I'm like, wow, we would totally be at the same house party.

I've always measured a good day as one where I can read, write, and run.

Writer's block is your self-critic getting in the way, because creativity will just flow otherwise.

Everybody thinks that touring is really glamourous, but I pretty much sit in a room all day. I have a sort of office where I do emails, and I go for a run, and then at the end of the night, I go to bed. It's not like some crazy party.

When I'm joking around, I'll say I'm a pop star, because it's silly.

There were a couple of months when I was approaching graduation where I started to think of graduating from college as the afterlife. Because it's this kind of crazy thing that you always know you're going to finish school inevitably, but nobody ever really tells you what happens afterwards.

I've always had an instrument attached to my body.

It's been really fun to see what happens to my body when I don't have an instrument attached to it.

You need music that is compelling and intellectual, but you also need music that just feels good and you can laugh about and dance to, and I think I'm trying to marry the two in some way.

Graduating from college and starting your life as an adult is a giant transition no matter what.

The main rhythmic loop in 'Alaska' is me just patting on my jeans.

New York is so strange. Every time I'm there, I very rarely see someone who's dressed cool.

I listened to birds and crickets, looking for the ways that rhythm appears most naturally in the world. I listened to the Smithsonian's field recordings of pygmy choirs from Africa.

Something really intense happened to me during the 'SNL' performance. It felt like the person I was made to be faced the person I'm becoming. It was the first time I felt like I was able to make any sense of ownership of my work.

Being 'back in my body' means being able to do the things I love, but do them in the way I love, and in my way, and in my time, giving myself the opportunity to just be me.

I titled it 'Alaska' because the song sort of represents everything that happened in my life surrounding a hiking trip I took for a month in Alaska.

I only get compared to women, which is crazy because often the women they compare me to... we just have a similar hairstyle. Whether it's Joni Mitchell or Florence and the Machine - our music doesn't always sound anything alike. But we just all have long hair.

When I was little, my mum would take me to see the orchestra, tell me to close my eyes and think about the story the music was telling. I always spoke about colours. I'd talk about how purple the oboe was.

The music industry is so cool because it's constantly changing.

Musicians have been political literally since people were writing songs.

I spent my whole life in Maryland, but I wanted to experience more - fighting to get to urban areas where there was culture.

I played in orchestras all through high school and taught myself how to play guitar.

What I love more than anything in the entire world is making music. It's what I studied in school.

The reality of the music industry is that I was a 22-year-old college graduate who was able to walk into boardrooms and be the one in charge. It's incredibly empowering. I wasn't ready - I definitely was not ready - but I was prepared as I possibly could have been because I had studied the music industry.