Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.

The pop world has really opened its doors.

There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.

I'm a daughter of a minister and I love chasing the Dark. That which is hidden. I like licking it like ice cream