I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.

I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music.

It was a bit of a switch-up, really,

I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.

I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming interested in the sounds of jazz. And I went to a concert of Jazz at the Philharmonic when we lived in Omaha, Nebraska, and I saw Charlie Parker play and Billie Holiday sing and Lester Young play, and that did it. I said, 'That's what I want to do.'

'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.