I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me.

I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.

If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do.

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

While trying hard not to apportion blamesI end up apportioning all the blame on myselfI take several portions of the blamewhich makes my heart to be filled with guilt

When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin.

If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.

You mind your tongue!” “Oh, I do,” I said. “I sharpen it every evening on your name.

But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. There's no competition, there's really kind of a sisterhood, on and off the set, you know?

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

Be a voice for the voiceless y'all. This world needs more love and hope!

I ad lib most of my dialogue. If I did remember my lines, it would be too bad for me.