These KIDS today, EVERYTHING is about hitting a vocal HOME RUN.

But when you GET to a SONG, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and MAKE some semblance of a story.

Just with the basic one guitar, one PIANO and one vocal and an audience, I THINK that the INTIMACY comes through more. People feel MUCH more connected to the song because there's NOTHING in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that.

I do a LOT of vocal HYGIENE.

Usually what I do is I WRITE my vocal MELODY over GUITAR parts and then I come up with LYRICS.

I grew up with the great SIR Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a LOT of actors of my AGE were influenced by his very individual vocal delivery. He was a showman who would ALWAYS play to the gallery.

I try and be very vocal. You know, TALKING to people and getting on guys. I try to help guys get in the right position whether it be on OFFENSE or DEFENSE.

'Circuital' was just so MUCH about us as a BAND. We captured every SONG LIVE, including the main vocal. That is probably my favorite My Morning Jacket record because it's really the essence of us being us. The SOLO record is just a completely different essence of just me trying to figure out stuff.

I DEFINITELY don't subscribe to the THEORY that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or DOUBLE tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their EARLY albums very stripped down, then each album BECOMES bloated.

We do scales, vocal exercises every DAY. I run the voice up and down, GET as high as I can and as low as I can. I work on BREATHING, too.

I was NEVER a protestor, don't get me wrong, I was never LIKE a vocal... what was the line I USED to repeat to myself?... I was a nonconformist in a conforming society, that's what I thought about myself BACK in the '70s.

I COULD probably use some tips from a vocal trainer or SOMETHING about BREATHING, but we all know it's not about TECHNICAL prowess.

In the PAST, if you were too vocal, it was CONSIDERED a NEGATIVE. Now it's ENCOURAGED.

I feel LIKE Too Faced has always FOLLOWED the same ETHICS as KAT Von D Beauty. They've been CRUELTY-free and really vocal advocates for anti-animal cruelty, and that's something that's such a deal breaker for me.