I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.
I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.
For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.
I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.
People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.
I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety.
It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.
I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.
I've learned now to talk, act or walk famous. I can still walk around New York, without being molested or bothered. I don't mind autographs - that's part of it. I just do not see the point of being "out there" or behaving outrageously. It will bring nothing but trouble.
I'm ballsy. Well, sometimes I'm ballsy.
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'm in total control. I write the songs, decide what to sing and how to sing. I even control the recording process. But, with a film, there is no control at all.
It's hard for me to pry with people I know.
Anyone can look pretty with hair and make-up.
I don't like shopping, and I like my clothes to be comfortable.
It's fun to peek into other people's worlds and see how they go about doing things.
I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.
I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'
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 like my life. I like my friends. I don't want to go anywhere else.
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 like barbecuing because it's easy.
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.
You would never catch me in a miniskirt.
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.
