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.

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 want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy.

I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

The more you put into it, the more you and the audience will get out of it.

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.

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.