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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple's double - she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the '20s, '30s and '40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.

Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.

Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.

From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.