If you're doing something new there is always a sense of fear or foreboding, but you're in new ground and you have to get out your machete and cut a …

- Jeanine Tesori

I've been really opinionated my whole life. I was raised to be opinionated. I was raised to debate at the dinner table - my father demanded it - and …

- Jeanine Tesori

My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three.

- Jeanine Tesori

I read a lot. I especially read memoirs and biographies. It's very helpful when you're thinking about what's possible and what exists in human behavi…

- Jeanine Tesori

I think there are some things in music that work and don't work. That's learned from counterpoint and rhythm and theory, and they don't work if you d…

- Jeanine Tesori

My daughter is my greatest gift and, not to be corny, but my greatest teacher.

- Jeanine Tesori

There was a period where I dressed sort of like a mechanic and I looked really schlumpy, and I thought, "This is not who I am. This is not who I want…

- Jeanine Tesori

I have never relied on anyone else for money since I graduated, and that made me feel grown up.

- Jeanine Tesori

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.

- Jeanine Tesori