I'm not exactly an angry young person.

I would love to do more private concerts.

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

Among the important realizations I had in my own days in the practice room was that if any one route to any one phrase didn't work after days of trying, then the exact opposite route should at least be explored, as well as every alternative in between, as counterintuitive as that often seemed.

You finally have to learn to pull all the different kinds of teaching and training and coaching together on you own, so that your voice and body and technique for a sound that is consistent and solid.

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

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.