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. Now I say I just write my own songs. I thought I had to help people get me, but I don't think they need to be spoon-fed. If you connect with me that is cool. I don't need the whole world to feel like I am a soul angel.

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.

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

Who made you the center of the universe?

I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.

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

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