I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go ther….

Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful..

I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms..

I don't want to hold you and feel so helpless I don't want to smell you and lose my senses And smile in slow motion With eyes in love..

I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry..

I think my mother, more than anyone, knew the importance of inspiration. If it was occurring, you had to use it..

I think we could all be a bit more elitist..

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don'….

My love of classical hit pretty early. I was 13 when it occurred, and that was really the only music I listened to for many, many years. I went to a ….

I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully..

I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to bleed in this world?.

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful..

The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale..

You had to be an over-the-top, demanding, dramatic figure in order to progress as a woman in Europe over the last few hundred years. Now people say, ….

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….

Life is the longest death in California..

I have a good face for what I do..

Wouldn't Ponochio II be a great musical, now that he has to face the real world and get a wife... job. Now he wants to be a toy again..

I really need to know I may just never see you again, or might as well You took advantage of a world that loved you well I'm going to a town that has….

I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth..

Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's really about being transport….