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

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.

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.

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

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.

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.