I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.

I love the silhouettes of the '50s that were feminine and womanly without being too revealing. I've always gravitated towards that kind of sense of style and fashion.

I went to school on the Internet. I was not a cheerleader.

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

I always think I could do better. I always think that something could be more perfect, but I think that that's just within my nature. I think I want to please a director, I want to give my everything and find every which way I could have burrowed further into a character.

As an actor, you always look for things that will stretch you and that are different than you are, so that you can surprise yourself, and you want to surround yourself with the highest caliber of people that will make you look good.

Being on Twitter, live tweeting some of the episodes, I get direct feedback from people.