Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.

I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it.

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.

I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.

For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.

I work on my voice through what I have to sing.

When I watch the Olympics I become such an emotional wreck. I've always loved the Olympics, be it the summer or the winter Olympics.

I started singing because I come from Wales

For the mountains shall depart

…and to all you other cats and chicks out there, sweet or otherwise, buried deep in wordy tombs, who never yet have walked from off the page, a shake and a hug and a kiss and a drink. Cheers!

We should be authentic: the ‘real deal’. Neither a clone nor mimic be.

But Jesus looked at them and said, "With men, it is impossible. But not with God. With God, all things are possible.

Leadership is a Requirement for Survival and a Prerequisite for Success.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US... But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.

Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.

The Devil sends the precipices; God sends the bridges! When you come across a precipice, look for the bridge; it is somewhere there!

I eat almost no lunch. I have a big dinner but I don't have a big lunch.