Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.

The thing to do [for insomnia] is to get an opera score and read that. That will bore you to death.

"You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things."

"I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music."

"Whenever you think that you are getting too big for the people around you, remember all that separates you from the guy sitting next to you is a little piece of gristle in your throat."