I've always been serious about music. After you've done it for so many years, you get back to the basics.

I wanted to put jazz on the record, all the loves of music that I had on the record, so I could show people I was ahead of my 19 years. It may have been over the heads of some people.

I've worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was a kid there weren't.

I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.

When somebody shows up and they believe in you, it makes all the difference.

I'm never satisfied with what I do.

I grew up in a time where anything was possible.