I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me.

If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do.

My libido was doing the humpy dance while dressed in Milkbone pasties and a thong.

Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic.

Nothing needs to be perfect to be good, and no one should need to feel perfect to feel right

A nuclear-power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

Without picking out anyone in particular. I thought Mark Wright was tremendous.

We need to have capabilities second to none. We need to create a situation where Chinies know that there will be adverse impacts if they continue to do what they're doing.

Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.

To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.

The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.