SM: Sometimes I’ll run into an artist who only responds in one word answers. If I get like five of those short answers in a row, I become the deer in the headlights! I just start rambling to try and jump start the “give and take.” It can get very awkward. Arielle: And you think, are they even listening? Do they even care? SM: Exactly! Anyway, on to other topics . . . I read that you were born in New Jersey, is that true? Arielle: Yes, I was born . . . SM: (laughing) I didn’t mean to put the emphasis on “born!” Arielle: Oh no, I didn’t mean it like that (laughing)! This is something that I did talk about in media training! I was born in New Jersey, but I wouldn’t consider myself from there, so I asked, “What do I say when people ask were I am from?” I was told to ask, “Do you mean where I was born or where I grew up.” But you have already asked my question: “Where was I born?” So, I was born in New Jersey . . . but I didn’t grow up there.
Songwriter's Monthly, February 2014
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