“Jazz is a sideways glance at music. It's like being an architect, know...” — Melody Gardot Quote

Jazz is a sideways glance at music. It's like being an architect, knowing the basis of design but understanding that the facade can be whatever you dream.

It's just incredible to be working alongside with the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation, sharing the story of his life.

I've fallen in love with South American music: Tango, the music of Argentina, the music of Brazil, Stan Getz, Bebel Gilberto.

I had severe anomia. I couldn't formulate words at all.

I went to the school of hard knocks. I don't mess around.

The team I have to work with at Loewe is incredible, from the architect to the archivist.

I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.

I wanted to be an architect, fate took me to films. Now that I am into politics, I want to give my best here.

The truth is that when writing a TV show or a film you are a part of a team. And though you might be the architect who makes the initial drawings, somewhere along the line it all has to be given up, handed over. To the costume department and the actors, the art department, the director and the producers.