You know when people smile too much? It's painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I'm trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.

This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.

Being able to hear an opinion. And then how to apply that opinion is something I am learning and working with every day. What can be tricky is how to differentiate a good suggestion that you should apply to your work [from] someone's personal taste at their opinionated best.

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.

You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don't exist.

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.