New York has always had a love for Southern artists. There's no place else that makes me feel like the city does. I just love the immediate nature of the city, you can get whatever you want whenever you want it and do whatever you want whenever you want to.

It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City.

Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.

I've got a 27-inch waist. Before, I was stupid smaller. Finding clothes in the South was impossible.

I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.