'I don't know what it was, but as a child I just gravitated toward the blues; it was an instinct of mine. When I got older, this is the music that soothed me, and singing it was a release.'

'I'm so in the world of Nina Simone, Etta James, Billie Holiday and Eartha Kitt, one of the original bad girls.'

'Look at Van Gogh. He couldn`t sell a painting to save his life while he was alive. The poor guy had to give them away. Same with Basquiat. They used to call h…

'Even though it`s hard working and what not, it`s fun. Ever since I was a little girl that`s what I wanted to do, so how can I complain in the end about the lo…

From the time I was a baby, this [Jazz] was the music I liked.

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.