Kurt Elling

At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.

It's a lovely thing to have people in any circumstance appreciate your work.

I consider myself very fortunate. I have a beautiful wife who supports my work and is raising our daughter when I'm out on the road.

There is an actor's responsibility in presenting the emotional content of the lyrics to an audience. But whether you do that in a straightforward fashion or an ironic fashion or a blase fashion is all about opportunities, and singers are missing opportunities as artists if they don't pay attention to the lyric.