You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.

As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.

My cheeks explode when I smile. Thats why I have to look so nonplussed.

All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved by light we decide to go on.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

The pop world is popular, and it's about what the people want and connecting to the masses, whereas opera, although it was once popular - and I still believe it can be - it has become very elitist and intellectual, but that certainly doesn't sell tickets. It's a struggle, but I've always embraced struggle and thrived off of it, so it's the way my life needs to go.