I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16…

I had always been interested in opera, going back to my college days at Carnegie Mellon. In my last year there, I even wrote…

— Stephen Schwartz

Marketing is really theater. It's like staging a performance.

— John Sculley

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started…

— Robert Ashley

For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.

— Simon McBurney

And whether or not you're interested in opera or classical music or folk music or the theatre, I think that for a nation's health…

— Lesley Sharp

When I was 10 or 11 people started saying there was something special about my voice. But when I was 15 or 16 is…

— Jessie J

When I was 16, I really decided that music was something I wanted to do.

— Frankie Cosmos

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music

— Kelly Osbourne

I only entered the industry when I was 16. I really didn't have much of a struggle to land myself a role in a film.

— Amyra Dastur

When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.

— Apparat

I built my first car at 16. I was really lucky, because at the back of my parents' house, there was a block of…

— Ant Anstead

I got my first part in Silent Fall, 1994 - I guess I was 15 or 16 - which was really outrageous because I…

— Liv Tyler

When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that…

— Bebe Rexha

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than…

— Bruce Beresford

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much…

— Bruce Beresford