There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room.

I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing.

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

I always wonder what drives us as Artists.

It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.

Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.

I'm sure I'll feel much more grateful when I find a guy who thinks complex wiring in a girl is a turn-on.

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.

It needs as much generosity to take as to give.

Don't give up. It's really important to trust your impulses as an artist no matter what anybody else says.

It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.

While there were many factors in the 2016 election, from false news to voter suppression and Russian hacking, the question is why so many people responded to Donald Trump's demagoguery.

Sometimes what happens is that, when you micromanage actors and moments, it just doesn't quite live.

Life is short and love is over in the morning.

I did theater for a few years while I was in New York, but it was tough having to perform scripts worse than what I knew I could write.