My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing..

Prima Donna is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience..

My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera..

What can go wrong will go wrong..

For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've n….

As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it..

They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera..

They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds..

Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note.

My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature..

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out..

Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make th….

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid.

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine de….

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems..

I've lived my life again just telling it to you..

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 make movies for money, exclusively for money..

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me..

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home..

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