Maggie Rogers Quotes

"If you're not changing, you're not growing; you're not being present. Change is essential."

"I remember going to church at home on Christmas in 2016, and people wanted to take my photo. When I'm home in Maryland, I don't leave the house. That's a weird feeling."

"'Dog Years' is sort of my way of saying goodbye and 'see you soon' to my friends from college."

"I'm kind of a funny writer because I write very sporadically."

"Bjork - she wears really weird stuff, and it's amazing."

"That's why people come to live music, right? To see something go wrong, something human, something vulnerable."

"Graduating from college and starting your life as an adult is a giant transition no matter what."

"I just kind of, like, know who I am. I think that comes from having an incredibly strong sense of purpose for a very long time."

"I listened to birds and crickets, looking for the ways that rhythm appears most naturally in the world. I listened to the Smithsonian's field recordings of pygmy choirs from Africa."

"Writer's block is your self-critic getting in the way, because creativity will just flow otherwise."

"It's interesting because all I want to do is make music. I want to sit in my room, play the guitar, make beats, sing... And I have never made less music than when being a musician became my job."

"Folk music usually romanticises the road. 'Back in my Body' tells the opposite story."

"When I'm joking around, I'll say I'm a pop star, because it's silly."

"I dress as a combination of space cowgirl and San Francisco art teacher."

"What I love more than anything in the entire world is making music. It's what I studied in school."

"I'm a private person. I am quiet."

"Ask me my influences, I always talk about Bjork and Beck because they're independent voices in the music industry."

"Ask about music growing up, I'll tell you I grew up playing classical music, and I didn't grow up in a musical household."

"I've never made R&B. I've never made gospel. I've never made hip-hop - I don't think I'm going to, but I just want to keep challenging myself."

"The craziest thing is I didn't know I could sing like this - ever. My voice has changed, or I've grown into it, woken up."

"The reality is my career started with a song that wasn't finished and a video I didn't know was going on the Internet. It happened so out of my control."

"The thing about fans is you don't get to choose your own. But every time I meet a fan, I'm like, wow, we would totally be at the same house party."

"I know some artists who write every day, and for a while, I felt really guilty that I didn't."

"It took me two years to write 'Fallingwater,' but it's one of my favorite pieces I've ever made, and it was worth waiting for."

"I only get compared to women, which is crazy because often the women they compare me to... we just have a similar hairstyle. Whether it's Joni Mitchell or Florence and the Machine - our music doesn't always sound anything alike. But we just all have long hair."

"I didn't decide on what college I was going to go to until the day I had to."

"New York is so strange. Every time I'm there, I very rarely see someone who's dressed cool."

"Something really intense happened to me during the 'SNL' performance. It felt like the person I was made to be faced the person I'm becoming. It was the first time I felt like I was able to make any sense of ownership of my work."

"For me, it's important to ask what are you making, and what's the public's relationship to that. And I say public relationship because I don't really care so much about any sort of reception."

"When I write songs, it happens very quickly, sometimes 10 to 15 minutes, and I draw inspiration from everything."