I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed.

My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That's how I see my voice.

You can't be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I'm very thankful for that. I'm very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.

I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.

I'm a real rebel with a cause.

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things - all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.