You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.

If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.

You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.

True bravery is being exactly who you are, imperfections included. Vulnerability is the most precious gift you can give.

My proudest moment of my career was opening night in Cambridge and watching the cast take their curtain call. No one was looking at me, and I was floating off the ground. It was just euphoric.

I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.

I think it was the perfect gestation time for this particular piece [ Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song]. One of the songs that I considered talking about was "Manhattan," because it was chronicling the end of a long relationship that was part of the reason why I moved from Los Angeles to New York, which was such a life-changing decision. I don't regret that it's not in there, but that's one that I considered diving into, and I have little piecemeal snippets of writing about that floating around