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Singing bel canto is like walking on a tightrope - especially with a larger voice like mine.

These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is.

You've got to find ways to breathe while you're dancing so that when it comes time for you to stop and sing again, you have it.

What I do is always hard for me to explain, but it's like a mixture of New Orleans jazz and world music, with a little bit of Spanish flavour. I just take all that and mix it with Chilliwack, and something comes out!

When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.

It's hard to dance to really fast music. All you can do is pump your fist to it, and after a while, you're going to have a seizure.

What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.

It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.

It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.

'Boom' is my heart. The 'kack' is my soul. Apparently when I choreographed I didn't realize that I said 'boom-kack' 'boom-kack.' I had no idea I was doing it and then I realized that it's every time I felt like the fight in my soul - the boom and the kack - was like my heart. It was like the love of it - my heart and soul.