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 don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.

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.

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.

The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.

I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.

I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.

A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.

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.

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.

A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

Breaking up is just hard, even if you're the one breaking up. It's not fun. It can be dramatic and complicated. And then you get a little distance and you think, why did it have to be so complicated and dramatic?

Coffee gives me bad breath.

Designers send me clothes I wouldn't feel comfortable wearing.

During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my hair. I've been stubborn ever since.

Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn't even have a football team.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

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 don't like shopping, and I like my clothes to be comfortable.

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.

I don't think it's a bad thing to share how you feel, especially if people can relate to it.

I don't want to be singing my diary.

I don't want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that's it.

I feel like I've been lucky, because I don't feel like I've ever tried to be somebody I'm not. People might disagree.

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 just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

I like barbecuing because it's easy.

I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety.

I like to be in control of things.

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 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 love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

I love slow music.

I make a good fried chicken.

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.

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.

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'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.