Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom to see everything through the filter of right and left.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good the bad and the ugly.

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

However great an evil immorality may be we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor which rests wholly upon yourself.

If you're trying to achieve there will be roadblocks. I've had them everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it go through it or work around it.

We all went to Kelsey's wedding and yeah we go to parties. We also go to each other's house. A group of us got together over at Kelsey's and just read through some plays just for the fun of it. That may not be everyone's idea of a good time but we had a good time.

I'd been a wedding singer through college but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad I thought 'Oh God if this is all I do I'll never be able to live with myself.'