My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23..

If I have to hold a note for a long time, I imagine it as moving and spinning, for the note has to have life. In a way, a singer actually refreshes a….

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else..

I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage..

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen..

The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used thei….

An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes..

In a sense, it's less about seeing how high up I can vault than about seeing how deeply I can explore my potential...Ambition for me is about the wil….

I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing..

When I sing, the sound is a totally different range, color, all of it. It's all about the breath. You take in a breath and you make a sound..

For years, I had no time for exploratory travel..

One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a very heavy bundle, but by the….

We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that ma….

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 m….

I have a noble history of being rejected by a lot of places, only to discover that the one that finally lets me in is in fact the perfect fit..

I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood..

I think singing it when its done well is extremely natural. It feels great..

I'm not a reactionary..

For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style..

For a while it was hard for me to say no to work..

Someone once said that there are probably seven naturally good singing days in a year-and those are days you won't be booked. What we must learn is h….