I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.

I've lived in New York all my life, and we went to the Mormon Pageant each year in upstate New York. It still is a wonderful production. I remember going and seeing the performance and listening to the music. My father had Mormon Tabernacle Choir music, and we would listen to it and sing with it.

An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.

For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.

I'm not exactly an angry young person.

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

For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.