Unfortunately Something Always Has To Go By

A Lot Of My Life Happened In Great, Wonderful Bursts Of Good Fortune, And Then I Would Race To Be Worthy Of It.

You Know, Making An Animated Movie Is Such A Lonesome Thing. You Mostly Don't See Your Fellow Actors Or Anything. You Go Into Your Booth, You Record All Your Dialogue. It's Very Much An Issue Of Trust. You Leave It All Up To The Director.

When I Read To Children, I Try To Become The Characters. It's Great If You Can Make A Separate Voice For Each Character. Sometimes You Can Lower Your Voice With Excitement Or Get More Intimate About It: You Can Lean Forward And Engage The Children As A Narrator Or As A Reader. It's Particularly Important That You Find The Voice That You Want To Use For Each Character, Because Then Children Can Imagine That Person As You're Reading Aloud. And Of Course, The Illustrations Help Enormously.

Growing Up In England, Of Course You Do Absorb Certain Ways The Royals Wave Their Hands And Carry Themselves. Like Most Girls, I Fantasized About Being Some Sort Of A Princess.

Words Are What Make The Song. I Get A Personal Vision About What The Lyrics Are About.