I Have A Noble History

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 Reject That.

Among The Important Realizations I Had In My Own Days In The Practice Room Was That If Any One Route To Any One Phrase Didn't Work After Days Of Trying, Then The Exact Opposite Route Should At Least Be Explored, As Well As Every Alternative In Between, As Counterintuitive As That Often Seemed.

I Do Everything In The Third Person. Performance Is About Being Someone Else.

If I Have To Hold A Note For A Long Time, I Imagine It As Moving And Spinning, For The Note Has To Have Life. In A Way, A Singer Actually Refreshes A Note With Every Beat That It's Held.

You Finally Have To Learn To Pull All The Different Kinds Of Teaching And Training And Coaching Together On You Own, So That Your Voice And Body And Technique For A Sound That Is Consistent And Solid.