I would love to do more private concerts.

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

If I have to hold a note for a long time, I imagine it as moving and spinning, for the note has to have life. In a way, a singer actually refreshes a note with every beat that it's held.

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.

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

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.