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" I spend upwards of 200 nights a year on the road. "

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" While I revel in the memories of my own Grammy moment, I also know how it feels to walk away empty-handed. "

" I'm thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musicians do not. "

" 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. "

" I travel all the time. And as I go around the world, I try to learn a little something and not just take up all the available air. "

" You don't show respect to Frank Sinatra and his great example by trying to sound exactly like him. You show it by sounding exactly like you, and that's the way jazz has always progressed as an art form. "

" Music is a physical expression that has a physical impact upon the listener. Sound travels in waves through the air. This is not abstract. This is scientific fact. And it makes physical contact with the eardrum... and with the heart... and with the rest of the body. "

" 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. "

" I try to stick with things that I can sing with honesty. "

" There's a wide spectrum of possibilities in how to deliver a song. "

" Of course we all know when music's too much in the head, and we define our greatest players by the way they are able to communicate directly from their emotional selves. "

" I consider myself very fortunate. I have a beautiful wife who supports my work and is raising our daughter when I'm out on the road. "

" A lot of people are put off by the idea of scat singing. Either that or it's something to be made fun of. "

" I hope that I'm also maturing emotionally as a human being as things go on. "

" 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

" It's easy to get tired of religious fundamentalists. They're such a bore. They have no sense of mystery. It's a drag, man. "

" I know how hard it's been for me to get my thing out there. "

" I can't say New York's home, but I've made a lot of friends, and I'm developing a map of what cats are here and where they play, and as a singer, you're always looking for projects that tie things in emotionally and intuitively with your life. "

" I want to be the jazz singer. "

" We all know that jazz demands a cultivation of the mind. "

" I'd been studying philosophy at the University of Chicago. I hadn't been doing well, because I was sitting in with jazz musicians at night - it's hard to read Heidegger, but it's especially hard if you're half asleep. "

" Audiences have taught me how to sing better and entertain better. "

" It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band. "

" 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. "

" My goal is to be really incredible by the time I'm 70. "

" I had everything to gain by giving it everything I could. "