In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow!

I like to think of myself as a combination of Sid Vicious and Virgil Thompson

My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive.

I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.

In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no time like the present.