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.

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

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

There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.

I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.

I am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it.