Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.

The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.

My philosophy is that the people around us are there doing as much work if not more work behind the scenes and they're the last people you would ever be unkind to, so I hope I'm not a diva off stage.

Music was language in our house. It was air.....I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first months and years of my life, they must have been about the work that went into making a beautiful sound.

Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.

Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.