Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.

My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in.

Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.

Mowing your lawn is against nature.

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.

Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces.

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.