Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.

I just like to act.

So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you.

I was always very active as a kid. I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.