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" As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going. "

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" Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually. "

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" My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play. "

" I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded. "

" If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night. "

" I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way! "

" I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less. "

" This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me. "

" I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk. "

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" There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often. "

" Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field. "

" I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer. "

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" You have to be clear what your message is and what you're doing. I mean, Miley Cyrus is an amazing talent, and sometimes you kind of just want to say, 'We know you're not Hannah Montana anymore. We know that, my dear. My darling. Now, go be great.' "

" For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the back-story. "

" It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine. "

" I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11. "

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" Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin. "

" I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts. "

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" My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights. "

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" I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate. "

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