I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.

When it's me in my living room, it's pretty pure, and then what gets recorded involves more people, and it keeps escalating from there.

I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.

I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything.

After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.

Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.