I used to want to be the quickest, loudest, and sharpest. I think as time has gone on, I've gotten more relaxed.

I've been, I think, able to stay grounded in such a crazy business, and I attribute that a lot to my family, and especially to my mother. Because, you know, she just was always there to kind of remind me of what priorities should be. O.K., yes, I'm an artist, I'm a performer, but I'm a sister, I'm a daughter, I'm a granddaughter, I'm an aunt. Those things have to be as important, if not more important, than my career.

I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.

I used to want to be the quickest, loudest, and sharpest. I think as time has gone on, I've gotten more relaxed.

I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.

I'm kind of a quirky dresser usually. Like today, I'm actually pretty put together, but I dress kind of off sometimes, but that's just part of my personality.