I'm not exactly an angry young person.
I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.
For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.
Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.
In a sense, it's less about seeing how high up I can vault than about seeing how deeply I can explore my potential...Ambition for me is about the willingness to work, the ability to mine my own soul fearlessly.