Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

Usually, I fly in the day before a concert so your voice can acclimate to the new environment.

For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically Im a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.