My children are my children. There's no doubt about that at all. They're very strong towards me, very protective, and I towards them. It works both ways.
From Kiri Te Kanawa
Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.
The word 'no' is a very good word in a singer's repertoire.
I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.
I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.
My energy is undiminished. Someone said to me the other day, 'Are you retired?' and I said, 'Well, I'm just trying to prove that I'm not.' There's so many things to do.
I tell students, 'If you are learning from YouTube I almost don't want to teach you because what you learn from YouTube it takes 10 times as long to unlearn.' They do an approximation of the centre of the note, an approximation of the interpretation, a cloned version.
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