Vanessa Carlton invited me into her home when she was promoting her album Heroes And Thieves. Her long-haired dachshund Lord Victor raced back-and-forth with a chew toy. How does she unwind? “Playing piano is so relaxing for me, and I’m so lucky that it’s my work and my meditation,” she told me. “I have a pretty fabulous bathtub in that back of my house that I get in every night, no matter what time and no matter how much I’ve had to drink.”