A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.
I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.
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.
For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.
A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.
A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.
For me, there’s a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.
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.
Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there’s something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that’s always been difficult for me. I’m a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.
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.
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.
Sometimes when you’re trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
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.
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.
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.’
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 feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.
I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.
I really love things with melody.
I like records that flow really well and you don’t have to skip around because there’s lot of different jumps.