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?
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.
Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.
I don't want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that's it.
I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.
Your limitations create your sound.
I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.
Songs are kind of alive, I think; once you finish writing them, that doesn't mean that that's it for the song. It can have its own little life, I think.
All is fair in love and songwriting.
It's funny how you realize what's important, and it's not fame and money, even though it can be really nice. It's happiness and whatever it takes to make you feel happy.
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 not like once you achieve success, you're done, you know. It's like, still enjoy doing what you're doing, that's the key for me.
I don't think it's a bad thing to share how you feel, especially if people can relate to it.
I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.
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.
Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.
I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.
If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.
Come away with in the night Come away with me And I will sing you a song Come away with me on a bus Come away where they can't tempt us With there lies I want to walk with you On a cloudy day In fields where the yellow grass grows Knee-high So won't you try to come Come away with me and we'll kiss On a mountain top Come away with me And I'll never stop loving you And I want to wake up with the rain Falling on a tin roof While I'm safe there in your arms So all I ask is for you To come away with me in the night Come away with me.
I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.
A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.
I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.
Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.
The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.
I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.
