Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage..

You don't take a picture, you make a picture..

It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera..

The days passed, as they do, and life went on..

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else..

The future belongs to the free..

Donald Trump is the head of a global power..

I'm really not that confident!.

Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flight….

I don't like things that aren't true..

Don't seek to be published, seek to be read..

I've been on top longer and I am younger. I'm just better..

What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians who cannot even afford….

I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British unde….

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me..

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I rej….

Vaisey looked like a startled earwig..

I prefer true over happy now..

The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna..

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing..

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate..