“When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.”
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“Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.”
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“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.”
Music“A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.”
Cool“Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.”
Home“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.”
Mom“I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.”
Hope“I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.”
Morning“I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.”
Dad“Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!”
Music“Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.”
Art“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.”
Dad“I love slow music.”
Music“I'm always going to do that - record and make music.”
Music“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.”
Music“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.”
Hope“What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.”
Music“I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.”
Cool“I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.”
Music“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.”
Cool“For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.”
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