I'm not exactly an angry young person.

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

The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.

Music was language in our house. It was air.....I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first months and years of my life, they must have been about the work that went into making a beautiful sound.

I have a noble history of being rejected by a lot of places, only to discover that the one that finally lets me in is in fact the perfect fit.

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.