When I hear music I want to engage in it. Even if I engage in it very quickly and turn it off in my mind. If I'm in an elevator, clearly I don't want….

I have every iPod that's been made ˘ that's how sick I am. I carry anything and everything I possibly would want to listen to. I have a lot of jazz. ….

When we look at the arts and letters in America, especially if we look at poetry, and poetry set to music, this dialogue, we have this very powerful ….

Once you go on stage you're essentially creating the world that people want to participate in. The worst thing you can do is go out on stage with the….

I think nervousness - a heightened sense of nerves and attention is a very healthy thing for a performer. It is an artificial environment that you ar….

The issues of poetry, and music, and dialogue with one another is the essential thrust of any song. The breakdown becomes the epoch, the language, th….

I love to sleep because I need the rest, but I hate to miss something. I would love to be able to take a pill that I wouldn't have to sleep. So, some….

Singing is not about timbres or category labels, singing is about fascinating acoustical properties like the colors of the human voice which derive f….

You would be surprised how many people that are very passionate about classical music are deeply involved in Hip Hop. You would think Jazz would be t….

Being a classical musician I'm fascinated with how my colleagues, not just singers, but every musician finds ways to express something else or someth….

My only advice as an experience older singer is about singing, it isn't about music. To have a career in music is a completely different question and….

I think one of the great things behind game theory, or game development, especially in education now, apropos, digital and new media, is finding a be….

I grew up in an extremely musical atmosphere. There was a lot of music and singing around. I never really thought about one not singing, as a person.….

We don't present our voices to the audience, we resonate our souls..

Every opera, because every opera is a unique slice of a particular perspective, historical perspective and psychological perspective if not musical s….