Tina Root: I first started taking voice when I was in theater, and then I startedtaking lessons. I had a vocal teacher who wanted me to go classical. ThenI found out who Nina Hagen was. I love how she meshed classical singingwith punk rock. It's like taking a symphony or the different parts of asymphony, the intricacy of it and cutting it up with a blade, then puttingin other parts and different types of music -- whether it's somebody scratchingor me singing strange or whatever. You can take things and cut them upand put them back together again into something new and different.