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Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
For me the voice is the most important, but making your singing believable makes a great performer.
Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right.
I think I have a great voice, but it's not special enough to be remembered. But what's special about me is much more than just my voice.
When I was with Geffen Records, I weighed almost 400 pounds. The label told me that I had a great voice but wasn't marketable having a weight image.
I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I was younger, because I had a great voice for a little girl, but I mean, my voice can't get any bigger when I'm older.
It would not occur to me to write a joke like, 'This would be great if I was more like Andrew Dice Clay.' It's not the voice I write in - which is largely an extension of the voice in my head that I think in.
My mother had a great vinyl collection, and she was constantly playing female singer-songwriters. I first learned about classic song structures by listening to them, and Laura Nyro particularly stood out. Her voice was outside what you'd usually hear on the radio; that really appealed to me.