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" I feel like I've been lucky, because I don't feel like I've ever tried to be somebody I'm not. People might disagree. "

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" I don't want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that's it. "

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

" 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? "

" I like barbecuing because it's easy. "

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" 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. "

" I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning. "

" 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. "

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

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" I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X. "

" I really love things with melody. "

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

" 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. "

" There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song. "

" I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now. "

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" I'm not a very dark person. "

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" 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. "

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

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