There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.

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.

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

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.

It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.