There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'

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.

I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.