Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.

The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.

The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.

We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.

Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

I am a person of the 18th century.

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

The earth and sky are like two mirrors facing each other.

What you were and what you are now... it's nothing... everything just lies in between...

You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.

The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.

The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.

We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and molecular taxonomy.

And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to.

Castle is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.

If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.