When we're doing our lessons, the teacher doesn't say, 'Ready, set, work,' They say, 'Ready, set, play,' and I always took that word seriously.

When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don't worry BE HAPPY!:)

Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones, I think that invites other people to see the world that way, too. I love sharing the experience of singing with people, and I love sharing my stories. But when it comes to teaching, I have a lot of help.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.