My nutritionist always said to eat whatever you want.

I don’t think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren’t poor. Everything was very...

One of the things that’s influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that...

When someone asks if you’d like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.

I’m very involved in the production, so I won’t let it be cheesy. I make sure that it’s edited in a way that’s true to the situation subtle and clever, representing me and my friends.

The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.

A friend of mine once told me that I can’t screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples’ songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out...

Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They’re supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have...

Dweezil and I are going on tour with the band probably starting in the middle of February for a month probably playing a few songs from my new record and then I’ll continue on after...

You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.

Some of us hover when we weep for the other who wasdying since the day they were born.

I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do y’all want for lunch, and as we’re eating lunch, what do y’all want...

I decided to do this TV series because what I do as a musician and songwriter is connect to an audience, so why not take that to another level,

I use my cell phone as much as I can-I talk to friends all the time. I’m like 2,000 hours a month. It’s crazy.

connect with more people on a larger scale.

I want to work on some more complicated baking… and it would be interactive!

And you said that I was naiveAnd I thought that I was strongI thought “hey I can leave, I can leave”But now I know that I was wrong cause I missed youYeah I missed you

I’m making a record that’s half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It’s really hard to keep music simple but I was trying...

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making, … Id been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

I’ve learned from dieting and not dieting that literally the thing that works best for me is that if I think of it, I better go ahead and have it.

It’s important to learn how to tell a story, … It can be in a very direct way. It can be in a very poetic way. It can be very personal, and sometimes it can...