Vocal Release Quotes

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting.

There were country songs I connected to when there was pain, when I saw things my family were going through. It was my way of acknowledging I wasn't OK: music tapped on the door; I could work out these emotions by singing.

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

Some things feel really good to sing: there's a physical aspect, but there's more to it - a deeper place you go to.

When I sing, I go somewhere else. Every time after I sing, I'll ask, 'Did I do OK?' Because I feel like it's like my soul squeezing out of my vocal chords. I don't sit there and think about 'I'm gonna do this next...' I just sing. I sing from my heart, and my heart's got a little lonesome in it.

Back in the day, I was afraid to speak out. When I get music behind me, it feels like I can soothe the hurt and put it in vocals and say it to the room the way I feel it.