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

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

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.

I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.

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

Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.

I'm not 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.

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.