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I never knew that I had an unusual voice. It wasn't something anybody really pointed out to me.

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

Starting out, I bet I didn't get a lot of parts because of my strange voice. I'm not consciously thinking, 'Hey, sound like a squeaky dog toy mixed with a bagful of rusty nails.' It's just what my voice has done.

I used to hate the sound of my voice.

It was a really strange way that I came into music. Once I gave voice to it, the pit of emotions that I guess I knew was inside of me for a long time, the stream never really stopped.

I began cutting up fish when I was a little kid.

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.

I don't even know what my voice is to this day.

It was early detection that saved my voice - and I imagine, my life.