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

I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.

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 want to get out of the major opera houses.

In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month.

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.

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