I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

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've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.