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

I'm not a reactionary.

Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.

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.

I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult.

The more you put into it, the more you and the audience will get out of it.

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.