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"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."

"I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi."

"When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing."

"I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar."

"It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me."

"I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at."

"After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible."

"An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me."
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"As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible."


"I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like."


"I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things."


"When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!"


"It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist."


"With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart."


"There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible."


"There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer."
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