"I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to unders..." — Jessye Norman

I am not one to equate dress size and artistic performance.

It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.

One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA.

I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what every word means and, you know, when it was composed and who was the poet and all of that and whether Strauss or Wagner or French Belioz, Duparc or Debussy or whatever.