A Lot Of Times I Use Live

I Don't Really Have Guilty Pleasures. Anything Musically That I Fully, Fully Believe, Is Good No Matter Who The Artist Is, No Matter What The Marketing Is Behind It, I Stand Pretty Firm.

I Was Working Through A Lot Of Challenges At Every Angle Of My Life, And A Lot Of Self-doubt, A Lot Of Pity-partying. And I Think Every Woman In Her Twenties Has Been There - Where It Feels Like No Matter What You Are Doing To Fight Through The Thing That Is Holding You Back, Nothing Can Fill That Void.

Our Mother Always Taught Us To Be In Control Of Our Voice And Our Bodies And Our Work, And She Showed Us That Through Her Example. If She Conjured Up An Idea, There Was Not One Element Of That Idea That She Was Not Going To Have Her Hand In. She Was Not Going To Hand That Over To Someone. And I Think It's Been An Interesting Thing To Navigate, Especially Watching You Do The Same In All Aspects Of Your Work: Society Labels That A Control Freak, An Obsessive Woman, Or Someone Who Has An Inability To Trust Her Team Or To Empower Other People To Do The Work, Which Is Completely Untrue.

I've Also Learned To Only Write Songs And Melodies That Really Work For My Voice And That I Won't Have Issues Doing Live. Because You Can Get Really, Really Comfortable In The Comping Process: Out Of Five Takes, Maybe One Of Those High Notes That You Struggled To Do, Nailed It, And Then Live You're Having That Challenge Of Really Having To Recreate That.

My Parents Only Played Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye. That's When New Kids Came Out, And We Wanted To Jam That. My Mom Was Like, "put That Thing Off And Put My Damn Record On". So From Old School To '90s To Recent, It's Just Always Been There.