Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

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.

Entrepreneurship is all about energy

It'll be the biggest decision of my life. Knowing me, I'll probably make the wrong choice.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market.

We appreciate yesterday, but we're looking for a better tomorrow.

My greatest fear is speaking in public.

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.

The Super Bowl is something you can't put into words. It's such a great feeling. I wish I could put it into words, but you just have to be there to know the experience.

I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.

Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won?