“If you listen - and I don't, usually - to my first two records, I soun...” — Melody Gardot Quote

If you listen - and I don't, usually - to my first two records, I sound like a baby surrounded by a beautiful orchestra. I sound so tiny and small.

I'm generally not a materialistic person, but I definitely have more shoes than I need.

I'm a bad walker but I can dance tango.

Sometimes you have to be broken down to your core to get back to your essence. You have accumulated a crust from the world, and it needs to be destroyed.

It's so boring to stand up and sing ballads all night.

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

I think the preservation of orchestras and what they do is worth expending all the ways there are to reach out to people who might not otherwise go.

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

We had a normal childhood. I played baseball, and we played violin in orchestras three times a week. I learned more from that than anything else.

Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.