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

I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.

We sing with the entire body. The sounds that we make emanate not just from the head, but from the whole heart and soul, and, most important, the gut.

When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.

The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement, and to maintain patience when faced with a process that is often slow, confusing, and frustrating.

I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.

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.