You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about ….

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give….

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it..

My dream as a child was to play with a bass player like Ray Brown, who played with the Oscar Peterson Trio. The feeling I had listening to his work w….

I always wonder what drives us as Artists..

It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos..

Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change..

When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this is really like looking at an….

I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what….

You know, we recently played a benefit with my husband, Elvis Costello, and Sir Elton John, who is a mutual friend of ours. Playing with Elvis and El….

The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs t….

I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal..

Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense..

Denzal Sinclaire embodies the tradition of the great singers I love like Nat Cole, yet definitely has his own voice. He is one of my favourite singer….

I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's….

There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort ….

I mean, I don't think I would call Claus to do an album of big band tunes. You know, just like arrangers write for the artist they have in mind; you ….

The best advice my mom ever gave me was that you have to talk about your emotions. If something upsets me, she'd say, 'Get mad about it; it's healthy….

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out..

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear..

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out..