I want to get out of the major opera houses.

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

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.

One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a very heavy bundle, but by the time the trip is over, it can all be thrown away.

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

My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.

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