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" I don't want to take it easy. "

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" Karl Johnson, my first piano player at Milt Trenier's, he just swung really hard and gave me a sense of really belonging to the jazz scene. "

" The musicians in Chicago gave me my vocation, but New York calls to a jazz musician, for sure. You want to test your mettle. "

" The great jazz and jazz-influenced singers carry themselves with a certain panache and a certain elegance and, for lack of a better word, self-confidence. "

Self-Confidence

" I hope to be at the top of my game when I'm 65 or 70. I don't want to reach my peak at 29. Not that I'm holding back anything, but there's a bunch of junk I don't know. "

" Out in L.A., things relax even further than they do in Chicago. There's such a looseness to it, and there's a potentially refreshing advantage to that. "

" I haven't been afraid of John Coltrane or Miles Davis or Bill Evans or Wayne Shorter or Herbie Hancock. Why would I be afraid of the Beatles? "

" I was very lucky that more experienced musicians allowed me to caterwaul until I figured out what it was really about. "

" You want to be doing your best work whatever field of the arts you're in because your life's going to be over all too soon, and you have to make the most of it. "

" You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a jazz moment. "

" There's a spiritual complement to any attempt at transposing a commitment to humanity through music or art. "

" I listened to a lot of King Crimson back in the day. "

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

" I try to sleep as much as I can. I drink a lot of water. I practice consistently and just try to be ready for the gig. "

" Each of the CDs prior to 'Flirting With Twilight' were more like roller-coaster rides. "

" It's a beautiful thing to have time in the world, as a singer and as a musician, to make friends with people of the musical caliber of a Tommy Smith, an Arturo Sandoval, a Richard Galliano, a Till Broenner. "

" You can never predict what the specific shape of your life is going to be, and you won't really know its general shape until, God willing, you're advanced in years and you have the time and opportunity to look back in a coherent way and see what your life was about. "

" At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated. "

Graduate School

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" The idea is to be unrestrained by categories. "