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.

Singers can also get away with a lot based on youth, strength and enthusiasm, only to find ten years later that what was once just a niggling problem has brought their careers to an end.

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

I would love to do more private concerts.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived. I'm still learning all the time.

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.

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