Ask about music growing up, I'll tell you I grew up playing classical music, and I didn't grow up in a musical household.

My goal really was to make pop music feel as human as possible.

I want to have a long career. But that's based on wanting people to buy into my voice and not into a fabricated image.

It's really easy to go viral, but I think it's really hard then to have a career.

I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.

As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue.

Sometimes I really need the money, really need to go straight to work. But if I had the absolute choice - money no object, my mortgage paid off - I'd really just work once or twice a year - but wouldn't everybody! - or at least do a different job sometimes.

I also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about doing that.