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Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

I was exposed to jazz early on.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

I think jazz has given me freedom with my voice.