I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.

For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.

I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.

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.

The more you put into it, the more you and the audience will get out of it.