I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film. Sure. Of course I would. And I would love to take acting lessons, and see that side of it someday. But I'm a musician.

I like my life. I like my friends. I don't want to go anywhere else.

I make a good fried chicken.

I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

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

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

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

Coffee gives me bad breath.

The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually.

God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.

You would never catch me in a miniskirt.

I love slow music.

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

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

For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.

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 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.

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

I like to be in control of things.

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

Your limitations create your sound.

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

I don't want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that's it.