Vanessa Carlton Musician Quotations

Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.

Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.

I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.

My room says that I was about 3, but it seems to be getting younger and younger to the point where I was, like, a fetus when I was playing.

I still have my hands and I can still write songs. I still have my body and I can still dance. I owe God so much because things are going so well.

Every time I get up on stage it is almost like VH1 Storytellers. I'm telling the stories of the songs and I enjoy sharing that with people.

But my morn was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.

I mean ultimately I am the artist, so if I really felt strongly about something, Stephan would defer to me because it's my album.

I want to be making records for years and years, and I think to have major commercial success and maintain your artistic credibility is difficult.

I don't necessarily feel comfortable divulging the details of my life, but there is always a way to communicate to the people that are listening.