My arias make me take off as if I were on a trampoline.

I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.

Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons.

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experiencing.

There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.

I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

...being with you was so easy and natural - there was no strain - I never had to guard my words...

Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.

The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.

Coming into a realization that there is purpose in why God has given all of us the gift of life- To promote the cause of Christ and God's Kingdom in a creative manner that expresses our uniqueness.

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create.

I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll.

No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it.

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.