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I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.