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I love being able to bring an animator's vision to life and give the breath to the voice of a character.

Animation is a fascinating area from an acting point of view because it's not really like anything else because you are only providing a portion of the performance. That's very inspiring and it forces you to do things in a different way - to tell stories through your voice.

I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don't feel that I can even take any credit for it, but it's such a huge presence in my life. It is my life. It's my identity, it's everything. And it's given me a great deal of joy and a sense of purpose - I can't imagine my life without it.

Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.

It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.

I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell the story.

Trying to give an individual a voice has always kind of been my mission in my life. As an actor, I've always seen that was something that needed to be done. You need to find that voice inside of you so that you can stand up and be who you really are.

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

I know that I have a voice and can use it for good or bad. It's a gift from God.