I mean, it feels like a homecoming in a really wonderfully comfortable place to be - the same director, the same musical director, my same dressing room! [laughs] It's a great place to build something with freedom.

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

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.

One thing I really, truly believe in is having something greater than myself to be grateful to.

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

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.