The musicians in Chicago gave me my vocation, but New York calls to a jazz musician, for sure. You want to test your mettle.

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

Man, I just feel so fortunate to be a jazz musician at all. I have a hard time thinking of it any other way. It's such a fulfilling vocation. I love it.

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.

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

I want to be the jazz singer.