I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.
While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.
It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.

