I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.
Meryl StreepSometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.
Meryl StreepBut for me, it [singing] was a way to get out the feeling of the song, and also to get out the feelings that, you know, roil in high school, to express something that I had no other way of expressing.
Meryl Streep