'St. Teresa' is one of my favorites. It reminds me of the importance of grace.
I don't really see myself as a success. I just don't look at it that way.
I don't think that Americans are ungrateful, not at all. But I do think that we are a young country, and we have a lot to learn.
I know what makes me connect to my music - it is knowing that I am not alone in my feelings and my thoughts.
I learned about forgiveness, and I've reached out to others to make amends.
I like swimming or go to the gym, but I am alone a lot, and that can get a little depressing.
I love being an American, and it's a beautiful country, but we are a bunch of whack jobs. We have got so much to learn.
I ran away at 15 to chase a guy that I met who would become my boyfriend, and he was living in L.A.
I was never really into any kind of hard-core religious structure or dogma.
I wasn't really raised in a religious family.
I wrote my first song when I was four, and I played it at my piano recital.
I'm writing all the time when I'm at home. When I'm on the road, I just get ideas, and I put it on my iPhone.
I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.
If I don't relate to a song, I won't sing it. The thing is that if I wrote it, I'm always going to relate to it.
If I'm happy and joyous, which I have been a lot in my life, thankfully, I'm usually not at the piano writing about it.
When you love the music that you're going to play, of course you're going to do your best.
When you hear me sit at the piano by myself and do one of those super-personal, confessional songs, that's where my true voice is.
The piano represents home to me. It represents a place where I can heal - the sound of it, the feel of it, the way it looks.
Leonard Cohen is probably the greatest lyricist for music that's ever lived, you know?
