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" I love to create something new every night onstage; that makes a big difference. "

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" I never called myself a jazz singer. I just call myself a vocalist because I love to sing all kinds of things. "

" The biggest thing is to just keep your voice in shape so that when the emotion hits, it's there to have the colors to paint those pictures with the lyrics as well as the sound. "

" I lived in Los Angeles for a long time, and in a lot of ways, I felt like I lived in my car. "

" I've dated a few musicians in my life, and it's kind of always been that way for me. You unite through creativity and share that process and more together. "

" The way I look at it, people pay me to travel. Once we get to the stage, that part is easy. "

" Oh my gosh, I love Jon Hendricks. "

" Early on, I started with classical voice and had that wonderful foundation. For where I wanted to go at that time, there were no teachers to teach it, so I came up with all kinds of different ways to develop the sound of my voice. "

" My mother would say, 'Stay ready so you don't have to get ready.' I spent a lot of my early years preparing for beautiful moments that have unfolded in my life so far. "

" Go out into the world with your passion and love for what you do, and just never give up. "

" I always have a little bit of Brazil and New Orleans in my band. "

" The Confederate flag is a divisive presence - it's the opposite of everything my artistry means and represents. "

" I listen to music all the time, and a lot of the things I cover are the standards of my time, and they work for me. "

" In high school, we had a really great jazz program that I finally was able to be a part of. They only wanted instrumentalists; they didn't want any singers. But I made my way in, and I remember the conductor of the band wrote a lot of arrangements and asked me what I wanted to sing. "

" Brazilian music has been a part of almost every record I've done, and I'd eventually like to record an entire album of Brazilian music. "

" I remember my grandmother used to always say, 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket.' But when I realized that music was inside of me, I decided I'm putting all my eggs in one basket. "

" Your voice is not your instrument. Your voice is the character that you build, your innermost feelings, the things that you want to say, and your instrument is the vehicle that you use to carry the message. "

" I don't like a lot of monitors on stage. I like the real raw sound of the open piano. "

" I really enjoy going out with my jazz group. That's something that I don't ever want to stop doing. "

" I feel proud of my journey. I wouldn't change it. "

" I think that when I started singing, I didn't know what I wanted to do; I only knew what I didn't want to do. "

" Now, jazz institutions are more readily available for young people, but for me, the institutions were the bands that I was in. When I worked with Clark Terry, that was the beginning of school for me, and Harry Belafonte and Sergio Mendes, they were all my universities. "

" My foundation is jazz. I do all the things jazz musicians do. "

" Art and culture and all of these things - they really matter. They shape your individuality. "

" Jazz onstage is a very intimate exchange between everybody that's onstage. "

" I have one closet that's just shoes. The woman go, 'Amen,' and the men go, 'Oh my God.' It's color-coordinated from the ceiling to the floor, from evening to casual. "

" I think the only way for you to grow and evolve is to keep listening, keep moving forward, keep jumping in and trying to experience. "

" I'm always inspired to push forward. "

" And I've found that, you know, the world of music is so vast and so broad, but at the same time, it's easy to find parts of yourself in places that you wouldn't even think that you were, you know? "

" If a song feels good to me, it's not very difficult to make it my own. "

" I have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements involved. "