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I've studied voice from a few different people for years.

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.

I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.

My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

At 28 years old, seven years out of college, I was so convinced that my voice outed me as a fag that I had stopped speaking to people I didn't know.

I never thought that I could make a living out of my voice, to be completely honest. I thought that I could probably keep playing pubs. And it was exciting for me to get even just a pub gig in my town or country, when I went to university.

When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.

I was a boy soprano. I had a natural kind of voice and then trained it after my voice changed.