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

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived. I'm still learning all the time.

I'm not a reactionary.

For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.

Your brain has a music room, and evolution would not have gone to the trouble of designing that if it didn't have some benefits. So, that suggests to me that we and our ancestors have had music as a central part of our experience for eons. And we're just beginning to understand how that might be. I think that's fascinating.

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

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.