My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived. I'm still learning all the time.

For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.

Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.

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.