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

I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.

I love all kinds of music.

I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.

My first love was the sound of guitar.