Montserrat Caballe

A soprano's voice is a little like a mother's cry, which is why it attracts all human beings.

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do?

To me, tattoos are a way of people being able to express themselves and have other people look at them and get a little insight into who they are, without ever even saying a word to them.

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.