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.

I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

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

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.

Music enabled me as a fragile young person to give voice to emotions I could barely name, and how it enables me to give my voice the unique and mysterious power to speak to others.

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.

Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.