I'm really intimidated by beautiful people. Beautiful guys, especially.

I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. Beginning at around age three I started singing with his band and jazz music has continued to be one of my three passions along with acting and writing. I like to say jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food. It's always where I go back to when I want to feel grounded.

If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.

Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.

I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.

I can't' really sing a song unless I really connect with the lyrics.

Sometimes when people have kids young, they're not ready.