Besides the sheer beauty of the instrument, I'm in awe of the places she goes emotionally while meticulously retaining vocal control. I think this is why I've always been drawn to her. She's a true singing actress, even in a cabaret setting, and knows how to sell a song vocally and dramatically without resorting to any cheap tricks. Hell, I even saw
Lennon twice because her rendition of "Beautiful Boy" was so simple and moving, and if they'd crafted the whole musical the way they presented that number, it might have worked.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
