I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.

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.

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.