“When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the ”

“That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.”