Being joyful is a choice.

Sometimes song happens all at once where you sit down and the lyrics and the music just come out. So there definitely isn't one way that it happens - there are a lot of different things that take place.

Often times, if a character is pretty straightforward, he or she is not as interesting to portray.

I think acting is a gift. I think certain people for some reason just have a gift that they were meant to perform.

The challenges change depending on the song. There are some songs where the lyrics are really a challenge and then there are other songs where the lyrics are there and the music is a challenge. And then you've got rock songs where the challenge is the tightness of the arrangement with the band. The music and the lyrics are there, but it's a challenge to get the arrangement correct. So I wouldn't be able to point to one thing. What the challenge is changes all of the time.

There's nothing better than actually getting to watch the person and see his or her mannerisms.

Being joyful is a choice.