Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig my heels in and try even harder to combine the two.

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

I would like to be a part of a community of women, and help women be empowered, but I think I'm not necessarily political. I say that because I really hate politicians, so I don't fancy sitting around and thinking about them all the time.

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

I'm respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask?

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.