"Any woman who can put herself into Tosca's shoes, make it through the whole evening and come off stage with their head held high - you've done a great thing."
"I myself am very contemplative about everything. I don't necessarily wear my emotions on my sleeve, but when I'm on stage as an opera singer something just changes and I just become this extremely emotive person."
"I feel like my place in a business like this is to show you that what you look like as a person will never matter more than what it is you can create as an artist."