For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

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

God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.

I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.

You would never catch me in a miniskirt.

Songs are kind of alive, I think; once you finish writing them, that doesn't mean that that's it for the song. It can have its own little life, I think.

I'm in total control. I write the songs, decide what to sing and how to sing. I even control the recording process. But, with a film, there is no control at all.