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“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.”

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The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.

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Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.

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I think [the virtual choir] speaks well to a benevolent future for the Internet.

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I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.

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I'm not an atheist, but I'm not a Christian, either.

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I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or…

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I truly thought I was going to be in pop music. And then I joined a choir to meet girls, and everything changed in…

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To have a live choir there on the stage and then these singers from different countries signing with us in real time through Skype,…

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People in chorus tends to be much more emotional or at least wear their hearts on their sleeve. They are generally the kind to…

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When you look back on music history, it falls into these neat periods, but of course, the period you yourself are living through seems…

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There must be four or five hundred choirs here in London alone. In a way, there's nowhere else on Earth I could go and…

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For me, the virtual choir has taught me that, if anything, the Internet builds these post-national tribes, people finding each other anyway they can.

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