I always go thrift shopping wherever I am.

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

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.

A lot of people hear things on the radio and try to make their own version of that.

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

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

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.

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.

When I was growing up, there were a few musicians who would have regular gigs at restaurants, and I always thought it was so cool and unexpected how they would spontaneously perform. Being the ambitious kid that I was, I got into it and really studied it. I was so inspired by it.

The music scene in Michigan is really folky and bluegrass, but my parents played a lot of disco. They really liked to dance.

I like a lot of older, '60s or '70s-style songwriting.

Songwriting itself, I don't think you can really teach that.

My music diet growing up was lots of sugar. Lots of retro-pop sugar. Motown, disco. A lot of English rock, like the Turtles, the Zombies, Bowie and stuff like that.

When I first moved to L.A., I lived in the Hills in kind of a wooded area that was just really chill.

I always like surprising people and doing things at a young age and, I don't know, trying to do them at a higher caliber than what you'd normally think. I'm not saying I'm a virtuoso, but I always challenge myself.

I never pictured myself as a professional musician.

I feel like I'm always just trying to write better music and keep topping myself.

It's all about the art, really, at the end of the day.

I remember seeing an interview from the Bee Gees and they were like, 'The biggest competition to the Bee Gees is the Bee Gees.' They just kept trying to top themselves and write better songs, and I'm just always trying to do that.

There's beautiful things about tour - you're seeing the world, spreading music and I'm able to call that what I do. But it's about living lightly and abandoning things.

I do like how the music can be misunderstood.

I always found creative ways to make money since I was pretty young kid.

I just like the obstacle course of figuring out something.

I guess that's always the mystery of music. It's like why does this song make me feel so grey or why does it make me feel sad or happy or nostalgic and so I'm most fascinated by breaking that down in my music.