I don't like to sing loud.

My philosophy is that the people around us are there doing as much work if not more work behind the scenes and they're the last people you would ever be unkind to, so I hope I'm not a diva off stage.

I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

Music was language in our house. It was air.....I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first months and years of my life, they must have been about the work that went into making a beautiful sound.

I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.