” I had a brother six years older than me, so I wasn’t just listening to teenybopper stuff. My brother had the cooler music, but my parents had the Burt Bacharach, Tom Jones, the Association, the Fifth Dimension, these groups were un-cool, but I secretly loved them. “
” I like being a storyteller. I’m bored with myself, I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in my songs: Karen, Margaret, Mary Kay. Even if it’s about me, I want to put it through someone else. The music is the soundtrack to the story. “
” People get to a certain age and success that they stop being curious. I’m still curious because I haven’t really had that success. I’ve never done a record to catch whatever the latest sound is. It’s my love of music, eclectic-ness, and the music that I heard my entire life that seeps in. That’s what you’re hearing. “
” When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that’s different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I heard Sammy Cahn was asked what comes first, the lyrics or the music, and he said, ‘The paycheck. “
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