"To me you can't do that in 'poppy' songs. It's all about yelling. I don't want to yell anymore," she says.
But her music still has mass appeal. "Real jazz fans - they are not my fans, to tell you the truth," she says. "My music is not pure enough for them."
"My fans are exactly as I am. I'm not into pure jazz either. If a musician freaks out on the trumpet, I hate that. I still have to hear the melody, the emotion."
Asked if she has a message for her fans in Taiwan, she pauses for a second or two, then says, "I'm just very excited to see them all again. It's been a few years now. I hope everyone will come again and have a party with me."
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