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.

I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.

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.

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

When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived. I'm still learning all the time.

For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.