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

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" 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. "

" 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 feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending. "

" When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" All is fair in love and songwriting. "

" If you're a female and you get asked by someone who shoots the most beautiful female scenes to be in their film, it's kind of exciting. "

" A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time. "

" Anyone can look pretty with hair and make-up. "

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

" I'm not a great piano player. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 like barbecuing because it's easy. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes. "

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

" I love slow music. "