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" I really just want an audience that is willing to let me live my life and share with them what I get out of my life. "

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" I see 'Grace' as an affectionate refusal of things that just aren't true. With all our power and money and influence, we still can't raise up high over people's consciousness. "

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" As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently. "

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" Jazz has provided the framework for all the other stuff that I've done. "

" Life is good. It might not go the way we plan it, but that's fine. We just do what we can. "

" Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it. "

" I'd listen to the radio, especially when my parents were out on house calls to pray for people - you know, shut-ins. Sometimes, if we were incredibly sneaky, we could do it at night when everyone was asleep. "

" I never left jazz. The relationship between structure and improvisation - that constant conversation and tension - I've always wanted in every genre and song that I perform. "

" I call myself a singer-songwriter influenced by the gospel and jazz tradition. Naturally, because of my lifestyle and love for nature, there's a lot of folk and Americana there because that's just my life. "

" My mom has a couple great tricks, but my father is consistently a good cook. He's extremely avid about health and fitness and a bit obsessive. He always talks about garden-fresh food. "

" By high school, I was putting the music for the services together and teaching Sunday school to everybody's kids. "

" I've always loved the woods, and I've always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet. "

" As I grow older, I hope I can fully embody my grandmother's remarkable peace. "

" I studied opera for a year at Georgia State University, but I wasn't interested in that meticulous, technical approach to music. So I left school and went back to jazz. "

" I have no ancestral link to the mountains. But I really do feel close to mountain culture. Their ways of food, of thinking. The way they hang out with no recording devices and just sing songs with each other. "

" So many great singers we know have come from the church. "

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" I know how to make myself comfortable. "

" I'm so grateful for just the inherent mercy of life. "

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" I'm in love with the way that Ella Fitzgerald delivered a lyric. She would deliver a lyric with the kind of clarity that would make you wonder why it was written, and make you think about the writer. I think every writer hopes an Ella of any genre or anytime gets a hold of their work and works the song like that. "

" The truth is, when you want a great show, it's not 'entertaining' the audience - it's you sharing with them... an experience of communion. "

" I live just above a creek, and it's always very active. It almost sounds like the ocean. It's constant, and there's lots of big rocks in it, so it's got a great sound. It's one of my favorite things. "

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" Where I come from, music is not a business. Sharing music is a business, but music is not a business. It comes from the people and belongs to the people. "