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'm not exactly an angry young person.

The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.

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

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

Your brain has a music room, and evolution would not have gone to the trouble of designing that if it didn't have some benefits. So, that suggests to me that we and our ancestors have had music as a central part of our experience for eons. And we're just beginning to understand how that might be. I think that's fascinating.

I don't like to sing loud.