I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough to have that great balance.

One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way.

When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.

I don't like the way recording to digital sounds.

It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song.... It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make music for a living, to perform these songs over and over, you have to safeguard those sparks. If you can do that, they'll last a lot longer.

When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas. Eventually, that process of using my voice to bring ideas across became more complicated, and I felt I could use it more as an expressive tool.