I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, 'It sounds like he's played the wrong note there.' I remember the look of horror on my dad's face, and thinking, 'Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.'

You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

Who made you the center of the universe?

My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.