I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.

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

Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me.

It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.