Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.
I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.