No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.

Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.

I definitely grew up to Nina Simone and a lot of Ella Fitzgerald. And I loved Amy Winehouse. I loved that sort of soulful singer.

One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.