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If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me
Music is fun. It should be fun. And that's the key, I think. Keep it as the thing you love.
I don't think it's a bad thing to share how you feel, especially if people can relate to it.
Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.
I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.
If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.
I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.
I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.
People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.
I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.
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.
I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.
I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.
I like records that flow really well and you don't have to skip around because there's lot of different jumps.
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 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.
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 just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.
I love eggs so much. I feel like my day hasn't started until I've had eggs. I'm probably gonna die from high cholesterol!
When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.
I don't go about playing music differently. It changes my sleeping schedule and my drinking habits, that's what I like to say.
I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.
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.
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!
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.
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.
During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my hair. I've been stubborn ever since.
It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.
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.'
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.
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.
There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.
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.
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 think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.
I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.
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'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.
There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.