"Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy."

"I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken."

"I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver."

"I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs."

"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."

"I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight."

"Never wear anything that panics the cat."

"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."