First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I've lost Onassis.

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not a devil, either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

On stage, I am in the dark.

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

Only when I was singing did I feel loved.

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