When you're walking in, basically like a kid a candy store, to a project where there's an endless canon of material, you have to step back from it as a self-indulgence. You have to look at it neutrally.

Grobanite makes me think of a type of harmless crustacean.

I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth.

Maybe the gruffness and anger can be done with a purity of sound.

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.

Singing brings out in me what I can't normally bring out in everyday life. It's an incredible feeling to be able to bare your soul to people you've never met in a way that can make them understand so clearly what you mean. That's what I love most about singing ... it becomes my truest form of communication.