I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations— you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you?

I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.

To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.