My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.

I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because now it looks like a TV set, literally.

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.

I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.

It's weird sometimes to have people not see me or see what I do.