I just don't like to be in my own - I'm already myself, so I don't like to be in my own - like, watch myself.

- Cecile Mclorin Salvant

I do love being onstage. And I've always loved playing a character and being watched doing that.

- Cecile Mclorin Salvant

I just became obsessed with looking for new singers, unknown singers, people that maybe have been forgotten, and really checking them out and analyzi…

- Cecile Mclorin Salvant

The more I listened and became obsessed with singers, I feel like the more I realized that I had my own little thing that I could do.

- Cecile Mclorin Salvant

I had a hole in my voice. It's an area in the voice where it's air. It's just - there's no - it's just very airy. And my classical teachers were just…

- Cecile Mclorin Salvant

I doubt myself a lot. And I'm very, very just overly critical.

- Cecile Mclorin Salvant

I don't like being the focus of attention. It makes me very uncomfortable. And it's part of the reason I never look at videos of myself, or I very ra…

- Cecile Mclorin Salvant

I remember in school - in elementary school - I used to recite poems. We'd have to recite poems. And I would always just, like, roll on the floor, li…

- Cecile Mclorin Salvant

I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little bit iffy because they were…

- Cecile Mclorin Salvant