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• When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a…
• When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it…
• I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role…
• I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long.
• Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.
• I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.
• I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.
• I'm more confident now than I've ever been. As you get older, you have to be.
• The word 'no' is a very good word in a singer's repertoire.
• I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say:…
• My energy is undiminished. Someone said to me the other day, 'Are you retired?' and I said, 'Well, I'm just trying to…
• I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was…

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