At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair

I am searching for the truth. Somewhere, it's in the music.

The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.

I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.

I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don't mind cooking dinner.

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground