The more you put into it, the more you and the audience will get out of it.

While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined.

I would love to do more private concerts.

For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.

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.

I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.