Coming back to Israel is a homecoming.
Nerves, stress and the pressure to perform are a part of life. You don't have to conquer these feelings; just learn to live with them.
The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.
I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion.
Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.
When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.
When I think of people I am close to, I genuinely feel that I can include Josh Lyman, Toby Ziegler, C. J. Cregg and Sam Seaborn.
I'm always constantly doing stuff with Beyonce in mind. Anytime I hear a beat I think she'll love, I'll put something to it and go from there and hopefully it's something that she's in the mood for doing. What exactly were you trying to accomplish with this song?
Trust me on this: no one is better off alone.
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music.