"Unlike the movie, the women will not become better women by virtue of this man dressing as a woman. He will become a better person by being surrounded by the women in the piece. "
"I think it's about wanting something so bad and knowing that you've got something in you, but the world doesn't know yet. And damn it, you're not going to stop until the world knows it."
"The most enjoyable thing about what we do is we get to spend time investigating music often that has so many layers and so much to investigate."
"Musically, it's always in a way, like a second thought to me. It's funny, right? I'm always interested in human nature and and humanities and the complexity of the humans in question."
"I always assumed that opera was a world in a space that I shouldn't go into, which I shouldn't even bother."
"When I am standing on a stage and am fully present and people are gazing back at me with that look of expectation, I absolutely feel like I am the luckiest human on the planet. I get to do what millions of people wish they could do."
"I've grown to know the music even more deeply. It's a body of work that I hold very close to my own heart. I feel very fortunate to have been able to do it."
"If that's how you hear it, I'm going to I'm going to fight like hell to give it to you.I'll nail it by concert, I promise you."
"We watched those peaks and valleys happening and the reaction from them. And it was never to give up, to lay down and just let go. It was always to fight."
"Our story is about this particular journey. It's a different journey, but the same journey that I think other people have had as well. "