Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.
I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.
Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.
Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.
I loved music - listening and playing - but of course I could not imagine I would be a professional musician. It really happened step by step.
Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
I like trying to make sounds that are interesting and are a bit weird. I try to make music that captures people's imaginations.
I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.
Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.
Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out opportunities to perform it.
Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
I've only ever had one doubt about music. It came when I was 11. I hated playing scales.
I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.
I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.
Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.
When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.
The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.
I believe in a uniform for work, but why, because we're men, do we have to be ghettoised into grey suits?
The first few weeks of being a mom were profound, not just emotionally but also, physically. All the changes you instinctually go through are miraculous.
