My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.

A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.

In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.

Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do.

My mom was definitely very strict with me.

I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write.

The Internet has been a blessing and a curse. The curse we know: A lot of people appropriating your intellectual property without paying for it. But I think it's important to realize the blessing of the Internet, which is that everybody has a voice and you can break through, even without a record company.