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I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

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

My music is jazz.

I want to expand jazz; I don't want to keep the audience limited. I want to reach people who have never come to a jazz concert before. One way to do that is by making records that have a lot of different kinds of music on them.

I want to be the jazz singer.

I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.

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 once tried to sing jazz for real. But jazz didn't do it for me. You can't have jazz without a jazz world, which doesn't exist anymore.

I'm not a jazz singer.

I'm a trumpet player, and I sing jazz.