You are what you eat, and you make what you hear. Cam More Quotes by Cam More Quotes From Cam Everybody is nicer to me when I'm in yellow. Cam nicer everybody me yellow It's really empowering to have curly hair. Cam curly really empowering hair I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live. Cam better you life way Day one through three of the radio tour, I actually went by Camaron Ochs. I went to my first set of radio remotes, and everybody was just like 'What's your last name?' It's not easy to pronounce. The first two minutes I got with people, that's what they wanted to talk about, and sometimes those two minutes is all you get. Cam day you sometimes people I would much rather be on the couch all the time. But it turns out, I'm also agreeable. I'll agree to do a lot of things. Cam couch out things time I've never wanted to be famous. That has never been a part of any dream. I do remember being little and thinking I might want to be a singer. But not a famous singer - just, like, a singer. Cam never dream remember thinking My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up. Cam ride like you water When I was in first grade, some psychologist told my mom if I didn't go to graduate school, she basically failed as a parent, because I had the aptitude to do it. Which is so dumb. Huge pressure! Cam parent mom pressure school My general idea of the world is that I'm not different at all because I'm a girl. So I get blindsided sometimes because I forget that that's a thing. Cam girl forget sometimes world In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school. Cam pretty doing go school I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's just this shift I think is happening in a lot of society right now where being your most real self, however embarrassing or vulnerable or weird that is, is the coolest. I feel like that's what Lena Dunham's about and Amy Schumer's about. Cam feel think society self I think Alison Krauss is one of the most amazing singers ever. As a songwriter - this is gonna sound cheesy - I love Randy Newman. And my mom passed on a love of Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. At one point I was so into the Indigo Girls, just like I was so into the Dixie Chicks, those female harmonies. Cam amazing think mom love Right after college, I got really into St. Vincent. She just is so cool and out there. I think that's super-inspiring. And tone and mood-wise, I just love Patsy Cline and Ray Charles. Cam cool think college love My grandpa was a big cowboy in his values and the way he lived his life. For our family, the ranch represented our family time when we got to drive down through all that desert farmland and Grandpa would wake us up at 5 A.M. to feed the horses if we wanted to earn the right to ride them later. I always had so much fun. Cam ride family time life I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn't know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car. Cam down car home sometimes My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.' Cam parents good you education I was raised by a family that there was no, 'You're a girl so you have a limited number of options.' In my community, that was never anything that happened. Cam you family community girl Nobody is going to hand you a music career. Cam nobody career you music The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business. Cam music business people way I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do. Cam music imagination world ideas
