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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

That's the thing: There are so many art songs in jazz. It's a much more rich experience for the singer than people think.

I'm not a jazz singer.

I'm thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musicians do not.

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.