Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully.

Explore the timeless wonders of life.

He who is absolutely right is absolutely wrong

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

It would have been nice if both players had maybe shaken hands with each other

In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue.

Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.

To reflect on the essence of the Creator ... is forbidden to the human intellect because of the severance of all relation between the two existences.

We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.