I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music...I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.

Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.