I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

You finally have to learn to pull all the different kinds of teaching and training and coaching together on you own, so that your voice and body and technique for a sound that is consistent and solid.

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

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

For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.

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

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.