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I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.

I don't sing very loud, which some people have given me trouble about, but we all have to figure out what our voices are, embrace that.

As I got older, I got Parkinson's disease, so I couldn't sing at all. That's what happened to me. I was singing at my best strength when I developed Parkinson's. I think I've had it for quite a while.

I was taking singing lessons, and they'd say, 'Your voice is too hoarse. You have to do more exercises.'

I'm not so vocal. I try to get loud, but my voice will just crack or something.

I started having a lot of problems with my voice in my mid-30s.

Those old Appalachian singers use a falsetto sometimes. They can change their voices to sound high or low or really scratchy. When you're singing, usually you're trying to express some kind of pain or joy. I think that voice allows me to do a lot more of that.

I miss singing every day. I can't sing anymore. My voice doesn't work. I have Parkinson's disease, and it sometimes takes my words away from me.

Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.