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 just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don’t want to do the same thing all the time.
I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn’t even expect to get a record deal.
If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that’s the only way for you to be with me.
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.
I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.
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.
The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I’m on a label that’s not really like that. They’re not trying to dress me up, they’re not trying to do things like that. I feel like I’m sort of separate from that, actually.
Coffee gives me bad breath.
When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably ’cause I missed something about Texas.
Designers send me clothes I wouldn’t feel comfortable wearing.
For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.
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.
Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn’t even have a football team.
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!
A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.
I could do without ‘cool’ publications calling me ‘mom jazz.’ But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.
I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film. Sure. Of course I would. And I would love to take acting lessons, and see that side of it someday. But I’m a musician.
I don’t think I’m a great songwriter, but I think I’ve learned a lot about it, and I don’t think there’s any one way to do it. I don’t think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.
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 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.