Lauren Pritchard spoke with the San Francisco Examiner about the lengths she went to lobbying her parents while growing up in Jackson, Tennessee to bring her out to Hollywood at the age of 16. The ‘Painkillers’ singer even created a giant chart for mom and dad, explaining how the pros of the cross-country move outweighed the cons. “I was a very healthy but frustrating combination of stubborn and determined,” she explained. “I wouldn’t hear the word No. So finally, my parents practically said OK. They moved me to L.A. and spent their life savings doing it.” Read more.

Lauren Pritchard tells Blast Magazine that her parents, especially her mother, supported her passion for music, allowing the singer songwriter to move to Los Angeles at 16 to live with her best friend’s family while pursuing a career in music. “I had very realistic parents,” Pritchard said. “If they really thought that I couldn’t succeed, they would have told me to shut up and do something else. … You know, you see a show like ‘American Idol’ and you see these parents, ‘My child is the best singer in the whole world!’ … And you’re like, oh, what is wrong with you? My mother was never like that. … I had parents that were like, this is what you can do well, and this is what you should do. But it was never in a forceful way. It was something that I wanted to do. Basically, there was reassurance and moral support.”