It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things.

It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.

If somebody wanted to go and find songs of mine to fill an iPod, that aren't on any records. They could probably find dozens of songs besides the ones that are on records.

I think to me, all songs are stories.

I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the perfect glasses on me, and all of a sudden I could see everything.

You are my sweetest downfall.

You get to be your own curator of your own exhibits inside.