I Want To Keep My Voice Young,

Music Was Language In Our House. It Was Air.....i Feel Certain That If I Absorbed Any Lessons At All In The First Months And Years Of My Life, They Must Have Been About The Work That Went Into Making A Beautiful Sound.

I Learned So Many Roles So Quickly As A Young Singer, I Thought It Was Time To Come Back To Them And Make Them Better - Deeper, More Nuanced.

The First Thing I Did When I Made A Little Bit Of Money As A Singer Was To Buy Myself An Amber Necklace. This Is Often The Way We Put Together Our Lives, Adding The Striking Qualities Of Others Into Our Own Character.

I Think Opera Has Gained A Kind Of Glamorous Appeal. It's A Live Performance That Aligns All Of The Arts, And When It Is Represented In The Media, In Film In Particular, It Is Presented As Something That Is Really A Special Event, Whether It's A Great Date Or Something That's Just Hugely Romantic.

I'm American. I'm Eclectic. I'm Going To Follow My Musical Passions. And If People Don't Like It, And It Hurts My Legacy, I'm Not Going To Worry About That.