I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late 90's. But I need the challenge of showing up and getting up there to spill my guts and connect with my loyal folks.

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

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.

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.

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

I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.