I would like to make one thing quite clear. ... I never explain anything.

There is no greater thrill than to sing with a beautiful orchestra.

If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee the it will eventually subside

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.

The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same.

When I read to children, I try to become the characters. It's great if you can make a separate voice for each character. Sometimes you can lower your voice with excitement or get more intimate about it: you can lean forward and engage the children as a narrator or as a reader. It's particularly important that you find the voice that you want to use for each character, because then children can imagine that person as you're reading aloud. And of course, the illustrations help enormously.