Well, any time Im preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, its as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are muscles that support the vocal cords which are just I believe cartilage. It demands a kind of constant warming up and a constant feeling of where is the voice today.

Your brain has a music room, and evolution would not have gone to the trouble of designing that if it didn't have some benefits. So, that suggests to me that we and our ancestors have had music as a central part of our experience for eons. And we're just beginning to understand how that might be. I think that's fascinating.

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

I was always a very good student.

I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.