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Designers send me clothes I wouldn't feel comfortable wearing.
I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.
The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually.
I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.
There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.
I don't want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that's it.
I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.
Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.
You would never catch me in a miniskirt.
I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.
Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!
I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.
I like my life. I like my friends. I don't want to go anywhere else.
I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.
I don't want to be singing my diary.
I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.
Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.
When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.
A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.
When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.
I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.
I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.
I like barbecuing because it's easy.
I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.
Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.
I really love things with melody.
A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.
A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.
If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.
I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun.
There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.
Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about.
I love eggs so much. I feel like my day hasn't started until I've had eggs. I'm probably gonna die from high cholesterol!
I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.
I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.
I'm always going to do that - record and make music.
I've learned now to talk, act or walk famous. I can still walk around New York, without being molested or bothered. I don't mind autographs - that's part of it. I just do not see the point of being "out there" or behaving outrageously. It will bring nothing but trouble.
People will read into what you say no matter what, so it doesn't matter to me.
I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.
For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.
A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.
I'm not a very dark person.
For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.
I'm not a great piano player.
Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.
I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.
If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me
In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.
I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.
I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.
I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.
It's hard for me to pry with people I know.
Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
It's fun to peek into other people's worlds and see how they go about doing things.
You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.
I don't like shopping, and I like my clothes to be comfortable.
Your limitations create your sound.
My heart is drenched in wine.
You'll be on my mind.
Forever
I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'
People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.
It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.
I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film. Sure. Of course I would. And I would love to take acting lessons, and see that side of it someday. But I'm a musician.
I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.
God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.
I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.
I don't think it's a bad thing to share how you feel, especially if people can relate to it.
I love slow music.
I'm very American.
I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety.