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" 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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" You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie. "

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" I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more. "

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" I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer. "

" When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone. "

" Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30. "

" Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained. "

" I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter. "

" I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s. "

" I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was. "

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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 think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen. "

" Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It's about discipline. You have to push yourself. "

" My favorite saying is, 'If it's too loud, turn it up.' "

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

" I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company. "

" Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it. "

" It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes. "

" There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world. "

" 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. "

" When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs. "

" A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration. "

" I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself. "

" An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time. "

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" Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what's difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That's very tricky. "

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