Cynthia Erivo

There is no other person who sings like her.

Because what she was able to do with her voice is unlike anyone else's that I've ever heard.

In the interviews.

Oh, it was my favorite thing to do.

It was my favorite thing to do.

It was my favorite because she's so brilliant.

She's so good.

She's so good at keeping everything to herself and still giving you something.

That it's all very important.

That what you decide to keep for yourself is okay.

Yes.

that there is sort of a want from others to know everything.

But your life, all of your life, isn't for everyone's consumption.

Each person walking through the world, no one knows everything about that person.

No one.

Not even the closest people to you.

There are things that you get to keep for yourself because they're just yours.

And I think the wonderful thing about Aretha not sharing absolutely everything about her life is that we got to know her as the artist, that we inevitably have to respect the work.

And sometimes that should be enough.

Sometimes that's enough because that's what she wanted to give.