Quotes from Natalie Prass

My path has been a little weird. I hope that it can inspire people.

I'm not really a trend person.

Music is what makes you feel joyful and makes me feel like I'm not alone. It's everything.

If you want to make something of yourself, you have to just do it relentlessly.

You go through so many changes, especially in your twenties.

If you want to be a songwriter, you've got to obsess over it.

My dad gave me the 'Introducing Dionne Warwick' album when I was, like, 14. It was the first time I'd heard Burt Bacharach's songwriting and her voice, and it rocked my world. She's such a great singer and communicator. It really helped me shape my own style.

It's an artist's choice to speak up about social issues, but I think it's really important, and my favorite artists have spoken out.

I love how controversial pink is. Men still feel uncomfortable wearing pink. It's ridiculous.

I'm definitely someone who's really picky about who I work with and how I want things to go, because I have a high standard of integrity for my music. I want it to be genuine.

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.

I get kind of nervous in crowds, so a musical festival would never be something I would go to, unless I was playing.

I'm really into the 'classic' thing - the craft of writing something that will last, that won't die by next year.

I'm the kind of writer that, once I get into writing mode in my brain, I'm non-stop.

I used to come home and play piano all day by ear and make songs up or figure out my favourite Elvis songs. I'd make up games by blindfolding myself and singing the harmony to whatever notes I'd play.

Stevie Wonder is obviously the master at political music that's for everybody, that's still joyful.

I come from the most normal family. I've always been the oddball.

When I was growing up, my dad would always be playing Motown around the house. He loved Stevie Wonder and the Supremes and got me into Dionne Warwick. It was the best music I'd ever heard. It was just that extremely deep, human, thought-out stream of ideas. You can always hear something new when you listen to that music.

I've struggled with self-esteem and depression, like most singer-songwriters. I listen to my EPs on Bandcamp, and I can just hear the pain and the self-esteem struggle in my voice.

I was poor. I struggled big time, living hand to mouth so I could be the kind of artist I want to be.

We still have so far to go as a country. People don't like to listen to women or take orders from them. I feel that a lot as a woman playing music.

There are a lot more variables with festivals than just playing in a venue.

I do what I want to do instead of what other people think I should do, and I'm kind of stubborn that way.

I've always been very driven and am also very stubborn.