Sharon Van Etten

I feel like, as a female, I am maybe hyper-sensitive to feeling pushed into a corner or somebody taking a song a different way.

I'm pursuing a degree in mental health counseling. It'll be a long journey, and I still want to do music and other creative projects.

In 2015, I told my band that I was taking a break so I could focus on my home life, go back to school, and try to remember what it was like to feel like a human being again.

I started playing, and people responded to it and connected with it and now, I don't even know what I'm really connecting with anymore or if I'm helping people. Now it's more of a business.

I can't read notes well, but I can hear something and sing a harmony to it automatically.

As a kid, you put musicians on a pedestal - well, I did. The more you meet bands, and the more you hang around them, you can have normal conversations.

Brit Marling is very positive, very professional, very encouraging.

I will entertain things that are entertaining and sound interesting and challenge me. But acting just doesn't come second-nature to me.

I am my therapist, and I analyze what's happening and if I'm being hurt in the process. The result is songs that are very emotional, very deep, although I try to write them generally so they won't alienate the listener.

I'm attracted to music made by people who let themselves be emotional. They really care about what they do, and we believe in what they say.

I overthink everything. I'm just like, 'Wait, why do they want to hear me?' I start doubting myself. Other times, I'll just get so emotional during a song. Sometimes I'll cry while I'm singing. It's so weird. I'm such a baby.

I hate the term 'emo.' It turned into this genre of music, when all music, if you connect with it, is emotional.