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

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

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.

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

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

There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.

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