Music was language in our house. It was air.....I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first months and years of my life, they must have been about the work that went into making a beautiful sound.

Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.

I'm not a reactionary.

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

We sing with the entire body. The sounds that we make emanate not just from the head, but from the whole heart and soul, and, most important, the gut.

I was always a very good student.