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I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.

I always used to say I'm definitely not a straight-ahead jazz singer, because then there's people who would hear what I do and say, 'Is it jazz? I don't know...' Whatever it is, it really comes down to creating music that makes people feel something.

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.

I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.

When somebody uses a word as a genre distinction, all it really does is trigger certain experiences, or music, that somebody's been exposed to. But that's an individual thing; there's no sort of universal understanding of what jazz is.

I don't want to be defined solely by what I do as a jazz musician at a club or a festival. That's not all of me. It's not even close.

I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.