My arias make me take off as if I were on a trampoline.

If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.

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 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.

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.

As for my voice, it cannot be categorized-and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in the dramatic, mezzo or spinto range. I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

My arias make me take off as if I were on a trampoline.