I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mitchell.
I would never intentionally want to hurt someone's feelings.
I think there's so much honor and integrity and beauty in being able to be who you are.
The greatest thing we can do is to give each other a safe space to truly, truly be ourselves in the world.
I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.
I have no business carrying myself like some diva.
It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart.
I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.
My life is so different because of 'Waitress.' The people that I'm close to, the things I do professionally, my colleagues, my best friend and my boyfriend - like, all of these things have come to me because of the show. And it's really beautiful.
My hairstylist taught me a trick for my hair. You section off your hair and put them up in these crazy little knots and then it looks like you curled your hair. It's saved me so much time 'cause on the road you don't have time or plugs to plug your curling iron in.
One of my earliest memories of writing at a piano was alongside my sister.
I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.
I never played coffee shops; I just played a lot of coffee shop-sized venues. I took every venue I could get my hands on.
I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.
I want to do good work in the world.
I have a tendency to become very self-critical.
I don't want to fake anybody out and make them think I'm a great actress.
Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it's mean. When it's a good song everybody thinks it's about them. And when it's mean, nobody thinks it's about them.
I'm never gonna be somebody who's gonna fall down from the sky on a trapeze. That's not me. I really want to make sure that my focus stays on connecting with the audience.
Everything I do will always be compared to 'Love Song' in terms of success or the way it's written or whatever, but it was a really formative moment in my life and in my career.
