When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.

As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.