This is the only way I can do this. I have to be honest. I want to make the audience feel with me. We are living this together."
"I think that we have become so cynical that we need something else in order to believe in love again. That's what we do in this opera."
Though he's sung the title role of "Don Giovanni" at the Met, he jumped at the chance to sing Don Basilio at LA Opera
"I think there may be no greater compliment than having this opera, this music, get people excited about reading Mary Shelley's novel."
"If we want this work to still have resonance, we need to help clear away some of the 100 years of cultural baggage."
"It's a responsibility I'm not sure I can carry. But on the other hand, it's a responsibility I would like to carry."
Music used in "The Exorcist" is back in a 50th anniversary vinyl release.
"I just don't see her as weak because I think it's too easy to say that only weak people become the victims of abuse."
"I don't know if anybody else can create Stranger Life. But what I do know is that nobody else is going to."
"We are all people that are imprisoned in this novel of fiction that we write in our heads every day of our lives."