Temperament and tightness often go together. But if you're tight, you can't sing. So I have to have that tension in my body but not in my voice.
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Temperament can really take a toll on the voice. If you get tight in your body with the acting, then you can get tight in your voice. And then you can get tired, and you can damage yourself vocally.
Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.
Singing intimately is almost like thinking into a microphone, so it helps to have the song buried inside you.
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.
When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice.
I sing in full voice in the car and have a tendency to harmonize badly.
I'm not so vocal. I try to get loud, but my voice will just crack or something.
And singing is a physical thing - your vocal cords are these muscles.
My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
Tightness gets in the way of everything, except tightness.