New York's architecture alone is enough to inspire a whole album. In fact, that's what happened at first - my early stuff was mostly just interpretations of landscapes.

Be like snow - cold, but beautiful.

My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs.

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

My mum and my dad they both like to sing they have really nice voices and my sister and my brother actually they are good singers too. I've been really blessed actually more than most to have a really good people around me.

Down on the West Coast I get this feeling like it all could happen.

I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.