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From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.

Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though.

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.

Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music.

My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.