You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a jazz moment.

If you start to dwell on your pain, the amount of pain will increase.

One doesn't have to scat to be a jazz singer.

I want to be the jazz singer.

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