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'm not a reactionary.

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.

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.

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.