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" A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake. "

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" I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot. "

" My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops. "

" In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing. "

" I'm always going to do that - record and make music. "

" I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.' "

" For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration. "

" It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat. "

" I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to. "

" I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet. "

" There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine. "

" I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it. "

" I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby. "

" I'm not a very dark person. "

" I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it. "

" I'm very American. "

" I hope there are some audiophiles still out there. "

" I don't think it's a bad thing to share how you feel, especially if people can relate to it. "

" I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial. "

" For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days. "

" I like my life. I like my friends. I don't want to go anywhere else. "

" I like records that flow really well and you don't have to skip around because there's lot of different jumps. "

" I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label. "

" Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about. "

" You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people. "

" God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away. "

" Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted. "

" I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal. "

" The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street. "

" I like barbecuing because it's easy. "

" I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over. "