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Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

Jazz is very much a part of my life. I work with the Thelonious Monk Institute and do the artwork for their program every year.

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

I might sound like the weird artist hippy girl or whatever, but I don't have a complaint about what jazz is or what I'm doing with music. And that's more of a philosophy on my life. I could find things that maybe could shift or change, but ultimately, it's like that's not a good way to live our lives and think about what we do.

Even though the music I make gathers influences from all over the place, I feel that the core of what I do comes from the jazz tradition. In terms of improvisation, interaction, feel and overall concept, Jazz is my main source of information and inspiration.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is.

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.