Quotes from Andra Day

I'm a huge Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu fan, so working with those two in any capacity would be a dream.

I love hip-hop, and everybody knows that.

As a singer, if I'm in a room that is too cold, I kind of freak out, so I actually like the humidity, and I love the heat.

Whichever chord progressions move me, whether it's rock, jazz, doo-wop or soul, I'm going to put it together and not be worried about whether people can put it in a lane or not.

Tony Bennett is an iconic jazz legend.

It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.

I'm excited for the audiences to hear the title track, 'Cheers to the Fall,' plus 'Red Flags' and 'Rearview.'

I'm inherently a chameleon... to not evolve is to not live.

I was a dancer for about 20 years. It didn't really help me transition into music.

Actors and singers share common ground in that they both express something.

My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.

I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.

At a young age, I wanted to be a prima ballerina and had these grand ideas that I would go study at Juilliard. It's something I laugh about now.

I love the Black Keys because I love that guy's voice.

I was always inundated with music, whether it be my mother's favorites like Fleetwood Mac and Carole King and the Carpenters, or my dad's jazz music.

I give credit to my team. I have dedicated people from my label, my fans, and people at these companies that believe in me.

I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Patti Labelle really spoke to me. When I got older, I was into Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and Lauryn Hill, but it wasn't until I started working with a voice coach that I really dove into jazz music.

Soul music is true to its name. It's music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music resonates with people's spirit like that, when people can emotionally connect with something or it helps to heal them, transform them, that never goes out of style. People will always need something to relate to.

Listening to the stories told in jazz music and how those artists expressed their truths about the times and what they were dealing with is what struck me the most.

I'm a hip-hop fan, and I'm a Southern Cali girl.

My father loved music. He loved Motown and R&B, and my mother loved Journey and Fleetwood Mac, so they were always listening to it and playing it.

I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn't want to be afraid to blend and experiment.

Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.

I tell people all the time - I'm a very spiritual person, so I pray over everything that I do including creating music, a new song.