My philosophy is that the people around us are there doing as much work if not more work behind the scenes and they're the last people you would ever be unkind to, so I hope I'm not a diva off stage.

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

In a sense, it's less about seeing how high up I can vault than about seeing how deeply I can explore my potential...Ambition for me is about the willingness to work, the ability to mine my own soul fearlessly.

I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

My philosophy is that the people around us are there doing as much work if not more work behind the scenes and they're the last people you would ever be unkind to, so I hope I'm not a diva off stage.

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