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

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.

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.

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.

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.

Designers send me clothes I wouldn't feel comfortable wearing.