My plan is to shock people with what I can do, because I've got a few sides to me that I've never used on screen.

Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.

Xena and Gabrielle were a couple...in the end, it was if not explicitly said, it was implicit that...yeah, they totally were.

When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place.

For the first time in my life, I put my body and reputation on the line to stand up for my beliefs and do the right thing. I hope I've encouraged other people to do the same.

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.