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Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.

The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.

If you write a song, and you go into a restaurant, and there's a guy with a piano singing and he's playing piano, singing your song, or you hear it at a wedding or at an airport... it's fun!

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

Coming from my bedroom in San Antonio to this big world and going from singing covers off my laptop to making music in this nice studio, making professional-sounding music - it's just weird.

When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.

There's a confusion sometimes with the laptop being the current tools and where electronic music initially comes from.

People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.