Stevie Wonder is obviously the master at political music that's for everybody, that's still joyful.Natalie Prass
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I was poor. I struggled big time, living hand to mouth so I could be the kind of artist I want to be.Natalie Prass
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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.Natalie Prass
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My kind of retro-sounding songs, or whatever you want to call them, aren't for everybody.Natalie Prass
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I get kind of nervous in crowds, so a musical festival would never be something I would go to, unless I was playing.Natalie Prass
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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.Natalie Prass
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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.Natalie Prass
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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.Natalie Prass
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That's what's so wonderful about collaborating: your idea can explode and become something else.Natalie Prass
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I had a fairy shrine in my room, and I went to fairy LARPing camp, and I played Dungeons and Dragons in the woods.Natalie Prass
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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.Natalie Prass
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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.Natalie Prass
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I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.Natalie Prass
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I think it's just my personality, or maybe just because I've been playing music for so long and working so hard at it, that I don't expect anything from it anymore. I just do my work and then hope that it works out.Natalie Prass
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I'm the kind of writer that, once I get into writing mode in my brain, I'm non-stop.Natalie Prass
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I'm really into the 'classic' thing - the craft of writing something that will last, that won't die by next year.Natalie Prass
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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.Natalie Prass
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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.Natalie Prass
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I blindly loved music and never once questioned if I was weird or not. I didn't care. Still don't!Natalie Prass
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I love how controversial pink is. Men still feel uncomfortable wearing pink. It's ridiculous.Natalie Prass
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Audrey Hepburn is a huge influence on my style. She's classy, confident, and simplistic. She's a tomboy and also super feminine.Natalie Prass
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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.Natalie Prass
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I got offered publishing deals to write country music, but it was not what I wanted to do.Natalie Prass
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Music is what makes you feel joyful and makes me feel like I'm not alone. It's everything.Natalie Prass
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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.Natalie Prass
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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.Natalie Prass
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Nashville has pushed me to improve constantly as few other places could, and I'm grateful for that.Natalie Prass
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I don't think I'm the most talented musician or the best singer, but I work really, really hard.Natalie Prass
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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.Natalie Prass
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There came a point when I was thinking, 'I'm now 26, 27, working on music every day, but I'm not making, like, a lot of money. What's happening? I guess I'll just start making dog clothes.'Natalie Prass
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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.Natalie Prass
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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.Natalie Prass
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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.Natalie Prass
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