I don't want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that's it.

I think playing music is one of my great joys in life.

When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

Your limitations create your sound.

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

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.

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!