For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

What we need is to get six or eight months of receipts before we get some feel for whether we have a problem,

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.

The real secret to having a successful trial is doing them real quick -- within the first six months.

For the underclassmen, you get to live for six or eight months in the Top 20. And for the seniors, you get to live it for the rest of your life. It's pretty significant.

We got our first eagle's nest about six to eight years ago.