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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?

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I like barbecuing because it's easy.

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On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.

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I'm not a great piano player.

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It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

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I really love things with melody.

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I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

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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.

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Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

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Your limitations create your sound.

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

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

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You would never catch me in a miniskirt.

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I'm ballsy. Well, sometimes I'm ballsy.

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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.

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

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I love slow music.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

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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.

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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.

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I'm very American.

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

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

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I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.

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

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Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

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

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I like to be in control of things.

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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.

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I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

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Coffee gives me bad breath.

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