"One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the lov..." — 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.

I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life.

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.