ELLE KING

My first name is a boy's name. It's Tanner. I've always gone by my middle name but, yeah, my first name is Tanner. And King is my mom's last name. I took my mom's last name since I was 18.

I have over 35 tattoos.

I'm actually a barefoot girl.

I'm a really good friend; I'm terrible to date.

I have perfected the art of the mean song to make me feel like I have a backbone.

I'm a water baby to no end.

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

I have a really supportive, great group of friends, and we all push each other. They come to my shows, I go to their premieres; it's wonderful.

I think I write funny songs that make people kind of, like, stop what they're doing and be like, 'What did you say?' And then it makes them laugh a little bit.

Sometimes, if you fake confidence long enough, you're going to be confident.

I love to sing big rock and roll songs; I love to sing country-pop stuff, and then I love to sing soft, sadder beautiful songs.

I fall in love fast, and I fall out of love even faster.

I flip the turntables. I write a lot from the male perspective, but as a female. That's how I live my life. I can roll with the boys.

You have to be nice to everybody, and then people want you to succeed.

I used to be afraid to use the word 'pop' to describe my music, but underneath my tough, bad-girl sound, there's some fun.

I'm obsessed with trash TV. I love horrible TV. shows. It's the white trash in me, you know?

My mom says I was born screaming.

I'm really not good at anything else, so if I don't make it as a musician, I'll probably just end up living in the woods with a bunch of dogs.

I had a beautiful mother and a famous father, and I didn't know where I fit in.

You never know which Elle you're going to see day to day, because I wake up in different moods.

I started playing in New York when I was 16. I had a fake ID so I could play shows, and, I don't know, bouncers didn't really say no to me, I guess. I'm fun!

I was born out of a Vegas marriage: My parents got married three days after they met.

I grew up barefoot, dirty, climbing trees. It made me appreciate things more.

I did some stupid things when I was younger, but I got a lot out of my system. Every time, my mom was waiting there with an 'I told you so.' Moms are usually right. You're wrong if you don't think that they've done what we're doing, because they have.

I don't like people who are just takers.