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.

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.

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.

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

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.