I'm really in touch with my Italian roots. My mom's whole side of the family is there.

Stay true to who you are, even though that sounds cliché. It's something that's important - doing what feels right for you.

I think patience is the best thing to try to embrace.

With different scenarios and different places, I think it's easier for me to get inspired; I'm seeing different things.

I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just makes songs.

If I'm experiencing a different thing every day and seeing a new environment every day, it can create a different mood or different feeling.

The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by.

I feel New York is too crazy for me, especially when you go to Times Square.

I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real music, I hope people remember me for that, that's a good thing to be remembered for.

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

YouTube was a way for people to hear me and for me to say, "Hey, I can sing this song, I'm not in front of you yet because I'm too shy, but here's how I sound for now."

The butterflies swirl again in Sera’s stomach. Perhaps they have brought along fireflies too, to light up her soul.

Once they have dedicated themselves to a cause, women will fight to the end for it.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

If you give, it will be given to you. And I have found that generous people are blessed people.

I believe how I live my life every day is my act of worship.

You might be a redneck if you're still scalping tickets after the concert is over.

I went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis, I switched my major to English and theater.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.