The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

I was an elementary school teacher.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.