I doubt myself a lot. And I'm very, very just overly critical..

I remember in school - in elementary school - I used to recite poems. We'd have to recite poems. And I would always just, like, roll on the floor, li….

I just became obsessed with looking for new singers, unknown singers, people that maybe have been forgotten, and really checking them out and analyzi….

I don't like being the focus of attention. It makes me very uncomfortable. And it's part of the reason I never look at videos of myself, or I very ra….

I did everything I could to not bring in any of the - any of the technical things I got from classical into jazz. And I did everything to really base….

I had a hole in my voice. It's an area in the voice where it's air. It's just - there's no - it's just very airy. And my classical teachers were just….

I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little bit iffy because they were….

I do love being onstage. And I've always loved playing a character and being watched doing that..

I just don't like to be in my own - I'm already myself, so I don't like to be in my own - like, watch myself..

The more I listened and became obsessed with singers, I feel like the more I realized that I had my own little thing that I could do..

Just reading that - just reading that a person can be black and still perform in blackface, making fun of black people for a living, and at the same ….

I think I'm fascinated with history and - just in general. And I'm always interested in how did - how did this come to be? Why is this the way it is?….

I remember as a child I just would copy everyone else's handwriting, and now I have sort of a version of my sister's handwriting. And I feel like - s….

It takes me a lot of time, and it's almost frustrating for the guys sometimes because they're waiting for a new song. And I - it's just so important ….

I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. I always wanted to have kind of a certain natural quality to my voice, and I wish it were more rough than i….

Classical singing - everything had to be homogenous, and it had to just feel like one continuous flow from top to bottom, bottom to top. And in jazz,….

I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved all kinds of music..