When you go to a show on opening night, or even the second performance, it is at the very beginning of what it will become. By the end of this run, the show will actually be what it is intended to be.
I applied to a few conservatories. I was sure that I wouldn't get in, and I didn't plan to go to N.Y. But then I got into Juilliard.
Performing didn't feel comfortable until I was about 17. I loved to sing, but I always said I would never perform because I was too scared.
I'm a big fan of skilled singers. Some of my favorites are Cee-Lo Green, Donny Hathaway, James Fauntleroy, and Kim Burrell.
I like a bit of eye candy like anyone but to have it solely about the eye candy and have it fall into a category so rigidly as well is wrong.
I'm concerned with China growing at double or triple the rate of the West, that there will be tensions. One needs to do something to start addressing misunderstandings and frustration.
I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.
I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the world.
I much prefer the road. My thing is getting live in front of people. There is a sterile environment to a studio that doesn't make me let go.
I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's going on.
I've learned you can't write on a computer on a bus. It jiggles too much, especially an Apple. The keyboard jiggles around too much, and there are too many typos.
There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.
I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.
I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.
I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes.
Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.
Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to me, I'm in the middle of that same verse!
I can't immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.
The hard wind we get around here on the eastern slopes of the Rockies is called a Chinook. It's a katabatic wind and comes from mountains to the west of us and the mountains to the south.
You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.
