I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.
One of my dream collaborations is to work with Sade. I would love to work with Andre 3000, Miguel.
It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am.
I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons.
As a young girl, I remember singing CeCe Penniston's 'Don't Walk Away. ' It was like my jam.
One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.
Everything in my house was either free or under 40 bucks, and people come to my house and can't believe that I picked up everything on the street or in a thrift shop.
You know, circumstances can change, but I'm just not going to let my head go there.
I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.
All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got involved in analyzing everyone around me. . . . Eventually, all my friends' eyes began to glaze over when I started talking this way, and I got the hint that there might be something comical in it.
To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.