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

A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.

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

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.

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?

The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.