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

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" 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 wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz. "

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

" I make a good fried chicken. "

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

" 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 songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 very American. "

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

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

" 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 don't want to be singing my diary. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I really love things with melody. "

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

" Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas! "

" A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music. "

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

" I'm not a very dark person. "

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

" When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas. "