I'm just a normal person. It's not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things. Shoes! Dresses! Expensive ones: with a pretty silhouette, beautiful fabrics.

Im just a normal person. Its not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things. Shoes! Dresses! Expensive ones: with a pretty silhouette, beautiful fabrics.

Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

I have an intuition, and usually my intuition is right. I have a feeling for whether a role will be good or bad for me, and I almost never make a mistake.

Russians always need a little sh*t in our lives. If everything is good and we seem completely happy, then we become suspicious of that.

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

we must bringour own lightto thedarkness.

It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.

I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand

I'm not gonna die in a hospital where the nurses aren't even hot.

The bottom line is that Dennis Brown is alive and well, and he's got two lungs and they're kicking and I'm still spitting out them notes.

As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat.

Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.