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.

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

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 have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons.

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!

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.