I’m not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I’m thick. I like my body.
But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it’s really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.
The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.
I wouldn’t mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn’t sound so bad!
I don’t have a ton of friends, but the friends I have are great ones. I don’t have huge family, but the family I have is a great one.
My mom is definitely my rock.
My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.
A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It’s a very moody key, and also ‘A’ is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.
I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It’s universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I’ve learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.
I’d rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I’m not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.
It’s when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.
I think there’s an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can’t be excited when you’re not doing something new.
It’s not until I hear songs that I’ve done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the ’60s and ’70s has been.
The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show.
Not because I’m trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades.
Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That’s how strong my love is.
I’m a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that’s not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.
Simplicity makes me happy.