Quotes from Natalie Prass

I'm pretty picky about what I do and who I work with, for better or for worse.

Like Lenny Kravitz, I wanna make the world a better place; I wanna unify people.

I'm a very loyal and compassionate person.

When I made dog sweaters, as goofy as that was, I made this product, and people could buy it, and I got money immediately. Music was just this ethereal land of maybe, a lot of waiting and waiting. You live your life around hoping you get a five-thousand-dollar royalty check that usually doesn't come.

I don't think I'm the most talented musician or the best singer, but I work really, really hard.

Gospel talks about life's struggles, but you always feel like it recognizes these struggles and that you can overcome them.

Who doesn't love a Disney princess, and who wouldn't want to be one? Belle is my favorite. She's the smart, awkward, and adventurous. She doesn't have too many friends - goes off and hangs out with talking silverware. I think it's great.

That's what's so wonderful about collaborating: your idea can explode and become something else.

Growing up, I had a natural love for women like Diana Ross, Mary Wells, Ella Fitzgerald. Then I got into Dionne Warwick, Nina Simone, and Patsy Cline.

When you're that age - that middle-school age, early high school - you're changing. You're going crazy. So I put all of my energy into pretending I was someone else, battling and screaming and all that stuff - casting spells and getting into a whole fantasy world. It was really healthy for me.

I got offered publishing deals to write country music, but it was not what I wanted to do.

Nashville has pushed me to improve constantly as few other places could, and I'm grateful for that.

I blindly loved music and never once questioned if I was weird or not. I didn't care. Still don't!

I'm a real musician's musician: I get really geeky on chords and arrangements.

I try as hard as I can to write from a personal place and be genuine.

My dad had his own business and was extremely busy, but on a very rare occasion, he would play guitar and sing a bit. I was always fascinated by it. I wrote my first song in first grade because my dad was making songs up during those special moments, and it seemed like a fun thing to try myself.

I had a fairy shrine in my room, and I went to fairy LARPing camp, and I played Dungeons and Dragons in the woods.

Music, for me, has always been a community thing. It's always how I make friends and hang out with people, because I didn't know how to do that. This is what makes me special.

Audrey Hepburn is a huge influence on my style. She's classy, confident, and simplistic. She's a tomboy and also super feminine.

I've always liked playing with somebody else and collaborating, just to get out of my own head all the time. Everybody does, but artists especially, we torture ourselves. So it's good for me to immerse myself in somebody else's work.

It is like an addiction: I get addicted to performing and touring. I get itchy and think, 'I've got to do this.'

After graduating college in 2010, I got to work - writing and co-writing all the time, playing and touring in bands, playing for other people's bands, working in coffee shops all over town.

I've always been very shy. Now I don't care anymore.

I've always been in this weird indie world, and for a long time, I felt that it was not okay to be girly in that world.