Is their a parallel between singing and acting?
There wasn’t for me. I thought I wanted to be an actress. I read screenplays and plays, did acting in high school, and then got a small scholarship to go to the University of North Carolina and took some serious acting classes at Boston University thinking I would transfer there. But in between I was working as a waitress in Virginia Beach trying to earn money to go to BU. I did a lot of work in little folk clubs there and got into a little music community. When I went and did some serious acting classes I realized that it was work of a kind that I didn’t have a natural instinct for compared to music. Those were my two loves, but I realized that music was my calling. I really didn’t have the ability to act; I was the best actress in my small high school (chuckles), you know? Beyond that, there wasn’t really anything there. I’m grateful that I found that out. Both professions are difficult in that it almost doesn’t matter how good you are. Luck, and being in the right place at the right
