I was probably singing before I could talk. Musical theater is my passion. If I could afford it, I would just do dinner theater and live a simple life.
Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.
When I found out I was pregnant, I was 22. It was really scary because I was working the music thing, and with a kid coming, you just can't live that life with a child.
In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.
To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.
I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.
Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.
It is very gratifying to see the music from 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy find a new life on the concert stage as it is performed by different orchestras and choruses throughout the world.
My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.
Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.
I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.
Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.
I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.
It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.
If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.
I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.
My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.
It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.
I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.
The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.
