According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.

I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.

I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

That's what really started the dominoes falling. So in the last five to seven years, you see this geometric increase in the volumes across the country.