The Voice 2013: Sarah Simmons, Eliminated Season 4 Contestant, Talks Song Choices, Vocal Technique, Musical Future

Sarah Simmons was a member of Team Adam Levine on Season 4 of the NBC singing competition "The Voice" and made it all the way to the Top 8 before she and fellow Team Adam contestant Judith Hill were sent home.

Simmons, who plans to move to California in July, gave an interview to TVLine and talked about, among other things, her song choices, her vocal technique and her future in the music industry. Here are some of the highlights:

"TVLine: Tell me a little bit about your vocal technique, the way your voice transforms from an ethereal place to a gritty place, sometimes in sudden and unexpected ways. Is that something that you've had to work on or were you born with it?

It's just something that I was born with. I grew up listening to all kinds of music. My grandparents helped raise me. I listened to things like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, old Turner Classic sounds, you know? My dad, though, listened to groovy stuff like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, all these incredible artists. And then my mom helped me grow up on soft music like Sarah McLachlan and artists like that. I loved it all, and music became such a release for my spirit and my soul. I started writing music when I was 13, had my first guitar when I was 15, and I just experimented with all kinds of music. I definitely would say it came naturally. But everything that is worth something, you always have to work at it till the day you die.

TVLine: Did 'The Voice' give you a sense of where you want to head musically?

I definitely want to make a CD that's rock and roll, blues and soulful sounds, but I also really want to make a CD of ethereal, eclectic sounds as well. And my other dream is to make music for movies. One of my favorite composers is Hans Zimmer, who did the music for Gladiator and all kinds of incredible movies with incredible scores. It would be a dream to work with him. I'm a big fan of an artist that he worked with, Lisa Gerrard, who's just an incredible singer. And then there's Eddie Vedder, and how he made music for Into the Wild. I'm so inspired when someone can make music to a story. It just sounds like an incredible blast."

Check out the full interview here.