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.

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

I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.

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

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.