I've never been a person who focused on trends. I'm influenced and inspired by trends, but I don't always subscribe to them.

As an actor, and especially as a young woman, there's so much pressure to look good all the time and it really detracts from what our job really is about, which is portraying a different person.

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

Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other.

It's the best feeling when you wake up and it's warm and cozy, and you don't have to go to work.

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.

I suppose that it doesn't matter whether a song is written or sung by a man or a woman. If the sentiment is there, it captures the audience.