I'm not a jazz singer.

I love all kinds of music.

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.

As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.