I'm not a jazz singer.
I love all kinds of music.
My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.
The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.
My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.