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

For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.

The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.

I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

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.

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