When I sing, the sound is a totally different range, color, all of it. It's all about the breath. You take in a breath and you make a sound.

We sing with the entire body. The sounds that we make emanate not just from the head, but from the whole heart and soul, and, most important, the gut.

I'm not exactly an angry young person.

Music enabled me as a fragile young person to give voice to emotions I could barely name, and how it enables me to give my voice the unique and mysterious power to speak to others.

I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.

For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.