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

Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that made us.

For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived. I'm still learning all the time.

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