I like barbecuing because it's easy.

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

The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually.

It's fun to peek into other people's worlds and see how they go about doing things.

I don't go about playing music differently. It changes my sleeping schedule and my drinking habits, that's what I like to say.

Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.