If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.

There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record.