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

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" I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot. "

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

" 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. "

" My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops. "

" I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film. Sure. Of course I would. And I would love to take acting lessons, and see that side of it someday. But I'm a musician. "

" 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 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 should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about. "

" 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. "

" Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way. "

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

" 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. "

" I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby. "

" I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it. "

" All is fair in love and songwriting. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I like records that flow really well and you don't have to skip around because there's lot of different jumps. "

" 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. "

" The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street. "

" 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. "

" I don't like shopping, and I like my clothes to be comfortable. "