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What puts me in the perspective of the power of a song is listening to it at full volume.
I'm very into superhero culture and stuff like that, so I always think on very epic terms.
A career is a progression of ups and downs, how you deal with them and how you bounce back.
The best part about getting knocked down is standing back up knowing what you didn't before.
It doesn't matter if you have something greater to say per say, just enjoy what you're doing.
The way things are today, people need to talk about mental health and need to be open about it.
As far as depths of geekiness... I have more friends in World of Warcraft than I do in real life!
I love getting online and looking at people's responses to things and communicating with everyone.
Don't let the romance die, remember one thing that's going right in the sea of things that aren't.
The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it.
I collect Wonder Woman - from comics to paraphernalia, and I even have a tattoo of her on my back.
I don't sweat the little stuff anymore. The little worries, I just don't have time for them anymore.
That's literally been a longtime dream of mine: to create a comic and an accompanying concept record.
I think that as you evolve as a person and an artist, your creative process evolves and changes, too.
Our down time at home consists of hikes and video games and trying to cook - because we are awful at it.
After I had a kid, I value every minute of time that I have alone and I don't take it for granted anymore.
The beauty of collabs is being able to genre-blend and try different things that you never would get to do.
Nothing's handed to you on a silver platter. Everything takes work, no matter how many records you put out.
If you do enough things, you're going to eventually narrow it down to the things that really make you happy.
I think that once you go through childbirth, you can do anything. It's like Wow! I can conquer the world now!
You can't go with the intention of writing something inspirational. You just have to go with the right heart.
Every day is just a time to learn about yourself and learn about the world and that's how I feel all the time.
Growing up, I was always blown away by 'Star Trek' and 'Barbarella' and 'Logan's Run.' The retro sci-fi thing.
Seems like the more you grow, the more time you spend alone, before you know it you end up perfectly on your own.
I think a lot of the time, comic art is dismissed as... not art, and comic writing is dismissed as not literature.
No matter who you are, big or small, female or man, brave or not brave, you can still be empowered and feel strong.
Being a performer and recording artist and playing 'World of Warcraft' - that's a pretty time-intensive combination.
It was so freeing to branch out and work with people like Josh Dun of 21 Pilots who played on 'Savage' and 'Almost Had Me.'
You can get a rut where you think you need to create something that sounds like a certain thing - especially with pop music.
Sometimes I remind myself of all the things that make me feel so blessed. And then I remind myself to remind myself more often.
I collect Wonder Woman - from comics to paraphernalia, and I even have a tattoo of her on my back. I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan!
It's the coolest feeling signing your record. And it's great when people come to your shows and know the words to the new songs.
There are no rules. And there are no boundaries in terms of where your imagination can take you. That is so necessary for music.
Sexiness isn't being young, hot and wearing a bikini. It's being powerful and feeling like you belong in your skin and it feels good.
Sometimes hate hurts more than love feels good. Just have to realize it's because we're more used to love. Let the haters stumble by.
You never should feel like you've grown up because then you've stopped learning and you've stopped getting the best things out of life.
It just burns my heart that there's such a massive discrepancy in the number of male producers in the industry, versus female producers.
I wish, to be honest, that there were more myths about me. I wish I was more of a mythical person, and that then I'd have myths to dispel.
I find that when you grow and evolve with music, the music understands you, and vice versa - whether or not the creator of that music knows.
The comic hobbyists world is so passionate about the details and the lore and the more you get into that, the more interesting it is for you.
Not that I sound anything like her, but I grew up singing like Mariah Carey, and Celine Dion was definitely my favourite artist when I was 12.
I've always gravitated naturally towards a little bit of a heavier thing, having been in punk bands and metal bands before I ever got into pop.
It's hard to be a credible musician as a girl with a decent face. Which sucks. I'm always gonna push to make a record that represents what I like.
I used to have this little punk pop band, and I don't know why we did 'Behind Blue Eyes,' because it's not punk pop. But we did, it was our slow jam.
I've been a fan of 'Wonder Woman' as long as I remember knowing who Wonder Woman was. And being able to draw or write 'Wonder Woman' would be amazing.
We're all in different scenarios, we all make mistakes, we all break stuff, but we're not perfect, we couldn't [be] - it doesn't matter what you build.
Being a mom makes it harder to find time to write and it gets harder to find time to sit down and do a vocal, because there's a baby behind you crying.
I've never been somebody who blew up overnight, I've never been somebody who everyone talked about all at once, but I've had this really cool slow build.
For me, the biggest gauge for success in a project is people's reaction to it and what they're saying about it and if they're sharing it on social media.
When I write songs I think about how it makes people feel, and I hope that when it goes into your ears you feel happy too. Not sexy happy but apple pie happy.