If your body is not in shape to sing [from the diaphragm] you will push and push but keep falling back on your throat to make the sound. This will ruin your voice.

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.

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…

Wholeness is birthed through vulnerability and sensitivity, which is often conceived in brokenness. Jesus taught me this.

I don't believe in raw evil." Noah said, "It doesn't care if you believe in it

The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art

How can I be sure I've succeeded, if I can't remember what I was trying to do

Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say

In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.

Sound theology should always lead us to doxology and transformation.

Confidence is the bridge connecting expectations and performance, investment and results.

You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.