An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination it becomes my life and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination the whole world opens up to you.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection which makes us believe and it is not true that as children we were imaginative?

We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations and you can also have your own style personality and sense of humor because now we're allowed to.

I think up until the point when we started in the business which was in the early '70s most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.

Humor starts like a wildfire but then continues on smoldering smoldering for years.

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

We love a good hyped sound but when it starts to sound insincere that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music even if it sounds polished doesn't sound insincere.

I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.