Getting in shape for this role, which is incredibly demanding, vocally, has been a lot of hard work, but I'm nailing it. I'm even kind of, at times, blowing my own mind, because I am even able to talk right now.
Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.
I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.