I was AWFUL when I started out. AWFUL. I am SO glad there aren't any tapes of me singing those two songs because I couldn't bear to hear them. I know what I sound like now, four years later, and I'm still pretty bad so I can't imagine how painful it must have been for my audience. My mother says I sound fine, and it's not like she doesn't know decent music when she hears it, but let's face it . . . she's my mother.

On the other hand, the instrumental music has improved considerably.