When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again

I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success

But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans.

Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

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.

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.