I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.

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

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.

While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined.

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.

Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.