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

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

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.

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.

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

If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.

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