I am still working on developing my voice. I am, I know, better as a coloratura singer than I was. It's a matter of strong breath control and yet making it sound as though it is the easiest thing in the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I work on my voice through what I have to sing.
I took vocal lessons for the first time and actually learned a lot about using my voice as an instrument as opposed to just doing what I've always done and going by feeling. I'm still doing that, but I've learned a lot of tricks and how to manipulate and play with my voice a little bit.
Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.
I took vocal lessons all through my childhood and still do. I was classically trained.
I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.
It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.
I have had the good fortune of being able to sing with many of the finest voices in the world, and for someone who loves voices as I do, this is an enormous privilege.
I don't push my voice; I try to keep a good technique, a natural way of singing, to sing from the breath, which is the main thing.
I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career.
I think, when I started writing songs, my voice just became another tool. It wasn't something that I was going to try desperately to woo a listener. As long as I'm using my voice in a way that helps people understand what I'm trying to say, then I feel like I'm doing all right.