I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn’t want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

I've been singing since I was nine or ten.

I'm grateful that I feel the way that I do - to make choices based on a lot of people's feelings - even though it has been hard at times, especially when I was younger, but I feel like it has led me down the right road for me. I'm very happy with what has come of that.

You can only ask to be respected if you respect yourself.

I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.

I think a lot of the way I live my life is not just for me, which has sometimes been a burden. A lot of the choices I make are in order to make them [my parents] proud.

I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn’t want to continue opera because I wanted to act.