Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.

White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.

I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.

I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.

My main goal is to tell a story.

A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.