People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.

I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it.

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.

I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.

For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.

I work on my voice through what I have to sing.

When I watch the Olympics I become such an emotional wreck. I've always loved the Olympics, be it the summer or the winter Olympics.

I started singing because I come from Wales

For the mountains shall depart

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped off

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust.

I think even Republicans are saying [Andrew] Puzder may have a problem.

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.

To see lonely, selfish, empty individuals transformed slowly but surely into warm, loving, wholesome, and happy people is to become aware of why Paul describes Christ as 'unsearchable riches'.

A penny saved is twopence dear.