Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.

Your brain has a music room, and evolution would not have gone to the trouble of designing that if it didn't have some benefits. So, that suggests to me that we and our ancestors have had music as a central part of our experience for eons. And we're just beginning to understand how that might be. I think that's fascinating.

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

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

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.

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.