I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

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.

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

I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!

Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons.

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

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