Quotes from Borns

I have a few friends who are amazing stylists, so I owe them a lot.

The Internet is a crazy archive of a lot of old everything. Paintings, drawings, old, new, and everything in between.

My vocal influences are a lot of jazz singers: Billie Holiday, Julie London, they had this tenderness to their voice.

It's very easy in the studio to get overzealous with your vocal takes, thinking, 'Oh yeah, I can do it over and over. I can sing at the top of my range for this whole song.' But when you're doing it every night on the road, it's pretty intense.

Allowing yourself to suck is the hard part of writing music. If you allow yourself to suck, you will probably write something better.

I don't wash my hair that often, to be honest.

I don't like washing away your body's natural oils and pheromones. Those are good. You have to keep those.

My favorite songs of all time are songs that take you on a journey and give you pleasurable moments you weren't expecting.

I was pretty young when my folks were playing those kinds of records, '70s rock and psychedelic stuff. So I just remember those songs being synonymous with my childhood, and I was always trying to imitate them on piano.

Nothing grounds you like a real authentic Mexican taco.

I always go thrift shopping wherever I am.

Circuses don't treat their 'performers' very well - whipping them, trying to make them terrified.

I really like small, intimate shows, but there's nothing like playing at a festival. It's a completely different experience. Everyone is just a little more primal; they can get away with more things.

Hopefully I inspire people just to lose themselves a little bit. That's what I enjoy doing on stage: challenging myself with a new territory, like performing differently, moving differently, singing differently, just let people know that it's okay just to do something that they've never done before.

No one pursued music professionally in my family but they are all music lovers.

A lot of people think I'm a chick. It happens the most at airports. The flight attendants will always say, 'Have a nice flight, Ms. Borns.' It must be the hair.

In 2016, I was pretty green. I was budding. Some flowers were shooting off.

My folks would have parties and all I wanted was to be the entertainment.

I dance as best I can. I try to let the music flow freely through my legs.

My parents played the Bee Gees; Earth, Wind & Fire; Michael Jackson. The best pop music to infiltrate a child's mind.

I find inspiration from a lot of different texts and really old stories and folk tales - things I feel like no one else is reading.

Performing is an exchange of a lot of energy and it can wipe you out.

When you listen to music, you can tell if it's a real love song or not.

I have these lacy shirts that look kind of like my grandma's curtains that I wear.