I never think my music isn't easy until I got to teach it to other people.
I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.
Anything I do has to have integrity, so if you just want to make music, it's not difficult finding support. The hard part for a publicist or manager is making a star.
My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard on the radio. I'd change little things in the music and write different lyrics.
If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.
Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.
I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.
There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.