Are you ever intentional, do you sit down to write, or does it just come to your head? Do you think about it, are you kicking something around in your head for a while, and then it comes to you? Yeah, I let ideas kind of kick around. I will sit when I'm really inspired, and just lay things down, but I like for them to naturally appear, because they always will. The idea will be in your head, and then I'll go on my computer, and I'll start researching things, things that are related to the topic, and then maybe that'll inspire me to write, sure. I'm never, to a fault I need to be more so, I'm working on becoming more of this kind of artist, but I'm not like, from this hour to this hour, I'm writing. I've never really done that, but it is good for you to do. I hear that when you're in the creation mode, you don't listen to any other music, because you don't want the music to influence you. Have you still not been listening to any music lately? I'm trying to change that habit, because I literally don't know anything when I'm writing a record. Everyone is talking to me about all these records that are coming out. No, I'm listening to music. I'm listening to mostly artist’s albums that I've always loved that are very influential to me. Then I've been listening to a lot of 80's electronic, dancey, fun stuff like that. Also, I've been listening to a lot of hip hop, because I think hip hop is very inspiring in a way that's not very much imitate-able as a white girl. I'm not going to make some rap record, but the way that they're able to talk about anything, creatively, within a song, I think a lot of people feel a different sort of pressure when it's more lyrical. I think hip hop's been very inspiring to me, in my life.
Do you have any favorite hip hop artists right now? Always Kendrick, Kendrick is a bad ass. I love Drake, to be honest, and I love Kanye. I'm a really big fan of Vince Staples, who's this new kid, but I really like his attitude towards the industry. He's so cool. I love that he's not fronting. He doesn't feel the need to be dressed up like some rich rapper, he's like, “I'm a normal person, and why am I going to pretend I have more money, that's stupid.” I like the new wave of young people that are really aware. He's only 20 or 21? Yeah, something like that. It's awesome! I love your sense of fashion. What you wore to perform on stage, is that your everyday style, or is it more dressed up, or is it a little bit different? That pretty much is my every day. I kind of just wear whatever I want, whenever I want. I think if you're not confident enough to rep what you wear on stage in everyday life, then you're pretending on stage. I mean, I actually want to dress more drastically. I'm just building my wardrobe as I go, but I pretty much wear what I wear on stage in my real life. I want to be developing an even more ridiculous wardrobe, I love clothes, oh my god, it's like an obsession of mine. It's because it's another art form, it's another extension of who you are. That's why I think when, I've talked to some artists who feel very differently, they're, "It's all about the music man." I'm like, “I feel you, on a level, but, since you are choosing to be a performer, and you are choosing to be on stage, and you are choosing to have your whole thing be art, why only focus on one aspect of art, when there are so many?” Maybe that's the girl in me that also likes to draw, and act, I just believe in, use every tool you have to hone your vision.
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