If you're going to war over religion, now you're just getting into a fight over who has the better imaginary friend.
I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.
That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.
I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.
I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.
Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.
Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.
Instead of talking in the hope that people will listen, try listening in the hope that people will talk.
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.