I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.

I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.