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

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

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.

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 not a reactionary.

A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.