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

Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

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

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.

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.

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.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.