a key memory of her childhood is the fifth grade math class where she would stop paying attention to the teacher, and instead rewrite the lyrics to a cranberries song. she grew up in a family where two of the grandparents had performed on broadway, and where her parents exposed her to a number of different artists, including elvis presley and led zeppelin. nalick says she draws more inspiration from poetry, literature, psychology, human behavior, and history than anything else. her musical influences range from ragtime to folk to trip-hop and everything in between.