I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

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

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.

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

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.

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