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

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" The music industry is changing. You only hear a sprinkling of big names, but there are a lot of really wonderful young musicians with great voices and lyrical content who have refined their sound. They're up in here, so don't think they're not. There's this wealth of talent below the surface that's ready to explode. "

" Singers like Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar are very conscious of what's going on around them, and they're waking up lot of young people with that knowledge. They bring their enlightenment to the world; the world that is buying their records. "

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

" I love being with artists because I'm always open to getting into something. "

" Nina Simone is a musical genius and a rich and precious treasure who paid a heavy price for her artistic freedom. "

" I grew up with great mentors in my life who helped me become the singer I am today. "

" I loved singing something like 'I've Got My Eye On You' when it's really about the FBI. It turns a love song into something else! "

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

" Oh my gosh, I love Jon Hendricks. "

" I never wanted to do anything else, really. I left home at an early age trying to find my voice, my niche in music. "

" I believe that music should really be without boundaries. "

" There is a certain kind of fire that happens when you fall in love with a musician. I guess you understand one another because you're connected by a creative desire. "

" People think jazz music is all standards and the Great American Songbook. But it's really about the sensibility, the feel you bring to the music. "

" I had a few celebrity crushes when I was growing up, including Eddie Kendricks from the Temptations. And I loved Marvin Gaye - I thought he was everything and instantly fell for his voice. "

" I've always respected and taken care of my instrument. "

" I come from a family of storytellers. My grandmother was great at telling stories, and my mother was an amazing storyteller. "

" 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. "

" I think jazz is the foundation for a lot of great musicians, and then after that, you know, it's this broad expression of things that really have influenced and addressed your life. "

" Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility. "

" 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? "

" When I found out how music made me feel and how my singing made other people feel, that's when I decided this is what I wanted to do. "

" My musicians know all of my music, and so that makes for something different. "

" When I first heard Nina Simone, her naked truth shocked me. Whenever she sang, it felt like lightning bolts in my soul. Every song was like a movie, a unique and very different vignette. "

" When I was in junior high school, I knew I really wanted to sing. "

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

" I think people have come to know that I am not comfortable in a box, you know, and that I love music. "

" 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. "

" When I worked with my uncle, I loved the fact that jazz music demanded that you use your own unique approach. "

" When I moved to Los Angeles, right away I met all kinds of musicians. "

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