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Singing together is something human beings just do, and there are hundreds of years worth of just European vocal music available to read and hear.

As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to have talents, and, very often, we think that we know what our talents are, or we find out through a back door that we have a talent. I know that I found out I was a lyricist quite through a back door.

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music.

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

Collaboration is much like a birth. The song that springs forth resembles each one of us to a degree, but it's the kind of thing that would never be born from just one of us sitting down with a guitar.

I got along with mostly everyone, but music school does that to you. We had to sing in a choir all the time, so we had to get along with everyone.

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

For the most part, I really love being in a collaborative thing. And in a collaborative thing if you have a singer as good as Sean Smith or Eddie Vedder, you kind of think, well, why don't you just go ahead and let them sing? People seem to really like it.