She sang on more than 600 songs for the hit FOX television show “Glee” and sings on Rod Stewart’s new upcoming album as well as Richie Sambora and Orianthi’s upcoming release as well as Ringo Starr’s new “Postcards From Paradise” album. She has been a background vocalist on “Jimmy Kimmel,” “The Tonight Show,” and for the likes of live performances by Elton John, James Taylor, and K.D. Lang. She just got a cut with Britney Spears, after having released a new single and accompanying video last month.
“Generally when you walk into the room and you’re with another professional writer of that stature, you come out with a good song… Every now and then they’re monstrously great or special, but they’re generally good songs.”
“Generally if (young writers) are able to tap into something that extraordinary right off the bat, they generally continue writing things that are in the upper echelon.”
“I think when you write a song that is really really good your first song out, you just have to be relaxed and know that not every song is going to be special, but there’ll probably be decent songs and you just have to be patient with the process and maybe three or four later you’ll write something that you’re really in love with again.”
“He shot (my video) on the iPhone and did an 8mm filter on top of it to make it look kind of weathered and old, and that was it – there was no post-production.”
“Music supervisors are basically looking for bands or artists that are doing their own thing, because, what they get to do is, they get to kind of co-market the whole thing. At the end of the show they can give credit, they can say ‘Go to iTunes and buy this person’s song,’ they can promote it. It makes the show look a little hipper to have these hip cool artists or young up-and-coming bands.”
“When you’re doing razor blade singing… everything has to be perfect; no vibrato, straight as an arrow, your exits, your entrance – everything has to be perfection. It’s a lot of work. It’s a lot of concentration. It’s an enormous skill that you’ve worked years to hone.”
“We do not have agents or managers or anything like that as professional singers. It’s basically a group of people that you know, that you work with, that will refer you out to other people, and the ball just kind of gets bigger and bigger and bigger.”
“My first hundred packets that I sent out to people I got one fifty-dollar job, in someone’s back garage where their cats were living… It definitely wasn’t singing on Ringo Starr’s record where he’s cutting up fruit for everybody and where I’m sitting in Ringo Starr’s house. It’s definitely a long way from the start to where I am now.”
“You gotta kind of swing while you’re up at bat. You just kind of have to take every opportunity that you can.”
“We started working on (‘Glee’) eight months before it started airing and we knew it was something really remarkable. We just didn’t know whether it would go over people’s heads or whether people would get it and I don’t think anyone was prepared for the ride that we went on with it.”
(as a session vocalist) “You have to be willing to be flexible… I think that’s the biggest thing is be flexible, with different personalities, different singers that you’re going to be working with, different musicians, producers. You really have to just be open because nobody is alike and everybody is going to want things done their way.”
"Me and You"
"Lifted"