Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing..

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing..

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music..

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at le….

I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray..

Singers can also get away with a lot based on youth, strength and enthusiasm, only to find ten years later that what was once just a niggling problem….

I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy..

The more you put into it, the more you and the audience will get out of it..

So much can be gained from watching other singers, seeing what they do and what they don't do, seeing how they look when they breathe, how wide they ….

Perfection often creates such a flawless surface that there's no place for the audience to enter into a piece, while the idiosyncrasies of individual….

It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us inste….

Among the important realizations I had in my own days in the practice room was that if any one route to any one phrase didn't work after days of tryi….

Your brain has a music room, and evolution would not have gone to the trouble of designing that if it didn't have some benefits. So, that suggests to….

I would love to do more private concerts..

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..