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

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" 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. "

" Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day. "

" I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do. "

" I'm ballsy. Well, sometimes I'm ballsy. "

" I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters. "

" The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually. "

" I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants. "

" A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it. "

" Coffee gives me bad breath. "

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

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

" On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself. "

" 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. "

" For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer. "

" My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do. "

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

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

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

" I'm not a great piano player. "

" I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned. "

" 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. "

" I really love things with melody. "