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

I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

When doing a revival, you have a lot of people asking you questions about someone who played it before, and to me that's neither here nor there - it has no bearing on the material that I have to use. The material that is written down in a score and script that the writers originally used is what I use.

If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.

I'm trying to think of myself at a quiet time. I need to do better with a quiet mind because I'm constantly going and I think that's what feeds me. I've been that way my whole life. But I don't think I picture things so much as I talk them through. Words, words, words. Words and melody.

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 love feeling like I have purpose and maybe that's the purpose I'm giving myself.