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

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.

I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy.

Singers can also get away with a lot based on youth, strength and enthusiasm, only to find ten years later that what was once just a niggling problem has brought their careers to an end.

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

I've lived in New York all my life, and we went to the Mormon Pageant each year in upstate New York. It still is a wonderful production. I remember going and seeing the performance and listening to the music. My father had Mormon Tabernacle Choir music, and we would listen to it and sing with it.

The first thing I did when I made a little bit of money as a singer was to buy myself an amber necklace. This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.