Yeah, I'm just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I'm very healthy in that regard.
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its limitations, but I'm learning different ways to keep it alive.
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief.
My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.
Let your throat-song be clear and strong enough to make an emperor fall full-length suppliant, at the door.
The best vocalists I can think of are female.
I never breathe through the nose, not when I'm singing. In the opera, you don't have so much time. That's fine at the beginning of an opera or after somebody else has been doing an aria, and you want to get a good fresh start.
Everything I'd taught myself about screaming is basically a big no-no for singing. Your posture, your airflow - you're just pushing all the air out. When you start out, you're fast, heavy and loud but you're hiding behind it in a way. When you stop screaming, that's when it gets hard.
My favorite diva is Dame Shirley Bassey from the U.K. I just love that every song she sings becomes crazy and intense with feeling. That's how I feel in my daily life.
The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
The great thing about Adele is if you put her on top volume, you actually sound like her while you're singing.
The only vocal training I had was playing with a tape recorder as a kid, and you know, doing the beginning of the 'Lone Ranger' show, with a hearty hi-o silver, and just having fun, never really thinking I would be an announcer.
I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.
I'm lucky that I have a deep, strong voice naturally, and the rest of it I just worked on as far as confidence and projecting myself.
I know how to be loud.
I really have shaken hands with where my voice is right now. I think it's got a little deeper; it's got some more grooves in it.
When Elvis sang, it almost sounded like he was whispering. But after you heard the record, his voice was the strongest thing you ever heard. He was incredible.
First, I try to take everything away that doesn't matter to singing. It sounds simplistic, but it works. There is absolute focus on singing: producing sounds and emotions that I have always enjoyed. This is key.
I love hard singing.
When I was 15 or so, I made a conscious decision to try and sing with a big voice. Everybody I listened to had these big voices, and I wanted to try it. The blessing is that I could.
Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
I thought everybody had falsetto. And since I wasn't a schooled singer who studied with anybody, I just thought anybody who had a voice could do anything they wanted with their voice.
I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.
