With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

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

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

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.

For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.

I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.

We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that made us.