I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You've got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You've got to go out and fight for it.

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?

I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.

To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.