Among the important realizations I had in my own days in the practice room was that if any one route to any one phrase didn't work after days of trying, then the exact opposite route should at least be explored, as well as every alternative in between, as counterintuitive as that often seemed.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

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.

My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.

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

I have a noble history of being rejected by a lot of places, only to discover that the one that finally lets me in is in fact the perfect fit.

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