Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

Im just a normal person. Its not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things. Shoes! Dresses! Expensive ones: with a pretty silhouette, beautiful fabrics.

I have an intuition, and usually my intuition is right. I have a feeling for whether a role will be good or bad for me, and I almost never make a mistake.

Russians always need a little sh*t in our lives. If everything is good and we seem completely happy, then we become suspicious of that.

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

I'm just a normal person. It's not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things. Shoes! Dresses! Expensive ones: with a pretty silhouette, beautiful fabrics.

Spain is more vegan-friendly than you've been led to believe. The truth is, most places are.

This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.

Practice structure determines success.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can’t be like any other author’s really.

All of us can work for peace. We can work right where we are, right within ourselves, because the more peace we have within our own lives, the more we can reflect into the outer situation.

The moment my name was called [Africa's Footballer of the Year] was truly overwhelming and I was about to scream with joy.

Pressure can burst a pipe, or pressure can make a diamond.

God created the world, but it is the devil who keeps it going.