Music is as integral to me as my own DNA. My life has become a continual soundtrack, with music underscoring the most powerful and even the most banal moments of my life.
From Danielle de Niese
I'm a huge dog person; I love to hug and kiss them.
One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days.
I've always been a bit dressed up, even on casual days. I suppose that's the performer in me.
Outreach appearances in the schools are usually part of my contracts, and I love doing them.
I've always considered myself to be a travelling soul. I've never felt out of place anywhere.
I sang with a voice that was natural, and I liked the way I produced that sound. I thought of my other friends, that they were singing and dancing, but they didn't have this. I was special.
In a fit at the bookstore one day, I bought all my favourite composers' biographies: Schubert, Massenet, Wolf. I've still not had a chance to read them; it breaks my heart. But when you travel so much, you just can't take that many books with you.
From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of me... to the world of my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes and ideas - for the world, for my own life, for the day, even for the moment.
Mozart is my first strength.
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