That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win.

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.

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

I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.

I love being not cool.

I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment when decadence is healthy, 'Poses' encapsulates that feeling. It's a kind of song and a kind of album that I'll never be able to repeat.

I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.