I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.

When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long.

My energy is undiminished. Someone said to me the other day, 'Are you retired?' and I said, 'Well, I'm just trying to prove that I'm not.' There's so many things to do.

The word 'no' is a very good word in a singer's repertoire.

That's been my sort of aim in life, to never miss an opportunity.

I'm more confident now than I've ever been. As you get older, you have to be.

I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.

There is no one or a group that would ever be able to achieve or accomplish anything unique except that they are angry with their situation.

Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever and He doesn't need a makeover!

The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Oh my love, it's you that I dream of Oh my love, since that day Somewhere in my heart I'm always Dancing with you in the summer rain

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

I've done some good work and some not-good work.

I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I do that on the guitar?

Available light is any damn light that is available!