I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.
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.
I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.
I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.
I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.
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.