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

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

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

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.

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

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