I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.

It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us instead of going to the movies.

When I sing, the sound is a totally different range, color, all of it. It's all about the breath. You take in a breath and you make a sound.

The first thing I did when I made a little bit of money as a singer was to buy myself an amber necklace. This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.

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

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

I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy.