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" Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn't even have a football team. "

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" 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 was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring. "

" 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 not a great piano player. "

" People will read into what you say no matter what, so it doesn't matter to me. "

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

" I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens. "

" 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. "

" Breaking up is just hard, even if you're the one breaking up. It's not fun. It can be dramatic and complicated. And then you get a little distance and you think, why did it have to be so complicated and dramatic? "

" Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness. "

" Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands. "

" What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it. "

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

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

" I love slow music. "

" All is fair in love and songwriting. "

" I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time. "

" Your limitations create your sound. "

" 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 make a good fried chicken. "

" I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano. "

" I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee. "

" I don't want to be singing my diary. "

" I love eggs so much. I feel like my day hasn't started until I've had eggs. I'm probably gonna die from high cholesterol! "

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

" 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. "

" I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music. "

" Designers send me clothes I wouldn't feel comfortable wearing. "