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

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

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

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

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.