Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.

When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that made us.

We sing with the entire body. The sounds that we make emanate not just from the head, but from the whole heart and soul, and, most important, the gut.

I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived. I'm still learning all the time.

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

Someone once said that there are probably seven naturally good singing days in a year-and those are days you won't be booked. What we must learn is how to sing through all the other days.

It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us instead of going to the movies.

I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

Some girls are full of heartache and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of running away from them.

Because human nature never changes.

You can influence a whole plethora of things, and just as they can influence you then you can influence them.

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

Yoga probably makes me a better person.

What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.

I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.