I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.

Prima Donna is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.

Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.

And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck down by a hammer.

But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.

New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani, capitalism - and then there was 9/11. I really believe that if I leave, it will suffer! Maybe that's why I love it here, because I feel wanted.

I am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category.