American Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anyone can look pretty with hair and make-up.

Your limitations create your sound.

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.

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 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.

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

There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.

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!

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.

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

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

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.

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?

That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!