I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

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

Anyone can look pretty with hair and make-up.

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.