I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.

In any big spectacular, it's really difficult to have enough voices to cover all the vocal parts. To give the audience the complete experience they're expecting, there is some reinforcement, some playback that everybody's hearing. Sometimes it's background vocals, but sometimes it will be actually vocal tracks. It's so hard to ensure, with no safety net ... you're not gonna get another shot at it, you have to have stability. I think it's very naïve of a lot of people to think that when you see someone open their mouth, they're really singing.

You don't have to be doing vocal acrobatics or singing all over the scale to have soul.

I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since about like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular

when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.

You talk to people and they seem really nice and then you read what they write and it's very disillusioning. You have to deal with how people let you down in terms of that. Because I think I'm basically a nice person and I think I'm a real person, and a lot of people aren't.

One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.