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I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.

The rule is to try and never play the same thing twice when you have the freedom to do that in the song.

In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is?' I want to believe there's something else going on, but what that something else is I don't pretend to know.

A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a song, what I usually do is work the lyric out first from some basic idea that I had, and then I get an acoustic guitar and I sit by the tape recorder and I try to bang it out as it comes.

'You Talk' was originally a copy of a certain Velvet Underground song.

I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up.

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always get people to sing with me.

Music has changed. You can just throw songs out on iTunes song by song; you don't have to do a whole album.

We'll be in our 60s performing 'Push It' somewhere. Good old 'Push It.' I don't know what it is about that song.

I do like performing 'I'll Take Your Man,' because that was a hard song.

I'm spiritual, too, but 'Gitty Up' is a great song, know what I mean?

I don't know if I could write a pop song without at least a little touch of bite in it, and it's usually not a bite that most people would want to sing.

I don't think I wrote my first song until I was 25. And then everything I wrote ended up becoming my first album. I put my music online, and from that, things just happened.

This song 'Calma' has been a blessing, an unexpected one. When I wrote the song, I wasn't looking for a single, I never thought I was gonna have a world hit in my hands. I was connecting with my childhood.

Hearing that Alicia Keys liked the song, and wanted to join us on 'Calma' is an honor and blessing that really transcends what I can put into words. She's one of the most talented artists in the world, and someoneI've respected her for a long time.

It was from the Nina Simone song 'Four Women,' and at the end of the song she sings 'peaches,' and the way she sang that line I was like, 'I wish she was singing it to me.' So I started writing songs, and the name Peaches fit with that.

People think I can burst into song any time of the day, it's crazy.

My mum said I used to sing on the bus. I was about five and would simply sit, staring out of the window, singing to myself. When I got to the end of the song and everyone gave me a round of applause, it scared me because I was in my own little world, but I obviously loved singing even then.

I'm moved by song lyrics, particularly Tom Waits' 'Take It With Me.' It's about a man on his deathbed, wanting to take the heart of the woman he loves with him when he goes.

In all honesty, I don't know what one song can change.

I think, with age, you learn that it comes in bursts and you've got no control over it. I'm not one of those people who says, 'I've got to write a song every day.' I just store up ideas, and really I have to wait until it finds me; I know when I'm ready to write. It used to frustrate me, but it doesn't any more. It's just how it is.