Lots of opera singers are just boring.

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.

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.

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

What is Above is Within ... the Circumference is Winthin, Without is formed the Selfish Center, and the Circumference still expands going forward to Eternity.

Learning how to understand how technology evolves, using tools like a Technology Road Map, is what you need more than anything to ride on top of the tsunami instead of being crushed by it.

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

Once you get offstage you're just like everyone else, and everyone else can get into a fight.

I'm not a prejudice person, and I've worked with many male legislators and some have been excellent for us, so I'm not speaking against a class of people.

Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence.

The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.

We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.

As a Polynesian, our gods are tied to water, so this means something special.