Usually, I fly in the day before a concert so your voice can acclimate to the new environment.

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

My two great loves are music and horses.

As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically Im a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.