Breaking up is just hard, even if you're the one breaking up. It's not fun. It can be dramatic and complicated. And then you get a little distance and you think, why did it have to be so complicated and dramatic?

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.