I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.

I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying.

Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record.

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

You know, I'm pretty much an open book.