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 choose things by how they resonate in my heart.

I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.

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

I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.

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

I've always loved jazz.