If you're a female and you get asked by someone who shoots the most beautiful female scenes to be in their film, it's kind of exciting.

If you're a female and you get asked by someone who shoots the most beautiful female scenes to be in their film, it's kind of exciting.

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'

I'm happy. I feel good about music.

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.