We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that made us.

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.

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

Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.

I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.

One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a very heavy bundle, but by the time the trip is over, it can all be thrown away.

Someone once said that there are probably seven naturally good singing days in a year-and those are days you won't be booked. What we must learn is how to sing through all the other days.