Alive Quote by Joan Baez

It was such a culture shock for me, being plucked from this diverse neighborhood in London into Jamaica Queens. I'm in this new environment,…

— Ella Mai

I remember as a student going to Covent Garden, where they took out the stall seats and you hunkered down on the floor -…

— Roger Allam

I was a vocal presence in the dressing room as an 18-year-old at Leeds.

— Fabian Delph

I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.

— Billy Connolly

My British accent often made me close my throat and sing from all the wrong places.

— Jen Ledger

When I first moved to London, there was talk of a folk revival, with annoying names like nu-folk that made me feel slightly ill.

— Johnny Flynn

Even being on the pitch and hearing foreign languages, the behaviour of people from other places, it sparked my imagination.

— Jesse Marsch

I didn't go onto 'The Voice' thinking I was going to go country. I went into it with an open mind and thought whatever…

— Cassadee Pope

There was a lot of playing by myself, wearing last year's Halloween costume and wandering around the yard talking to myself - which may…

— Jefferson Mays

When I went on air and people heard my accent, they all said it was really nice to have a northern voice.

— Steph McGovern

I was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was doing. I…

— Eileen Myles

It was interesting doing impressions as somebody else doing impressions. Normally, I'll do a voice, and it's me doing the voice. To have to…

— Chris Diamantopoulos