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

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.

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

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.

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

The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.

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.