My foundation is jazz. I do all the things jazz musicians do.
Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful.
I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians.
I have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements involved.
I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.
I always wanted to sing a jazz record.
I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.
I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.
I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.
Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record.
Everything we did, we did live - and then Bobby took it home and chopped it up and edited it. Which is pretty much what they did with every jazz record you've ever heard.
I want to be the jazz singer.
One doesn't have to scat to be a jazz singer.
I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.
I'm not a jazz singer.
The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.
I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.
Dianne Reeves, a famous jazz singer, would be my biggest influence.
I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.
Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.