I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

So much can be gained from watching other singers, seeing what they do and what they don't do, seeing how they look when they breathe, how wide they open their mouths for a high note.

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

I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.

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.

A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.

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