There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.

Among the important realizations I had in my own days in the practice room was that if any one route to any one phrase didn't work after days of trying, then the exact opposite route should at least be explored, as well as every alternative in between, as counterintuitive as that often seemed.

I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us instead of going to the movies.

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.

For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.