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.

We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that made us.

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

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

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.

I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.

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