Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

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?

You would never catch me in a miniskirt.

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

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

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 actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.