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I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.

I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't have the instrument or the discipline. The road for opera singers is more difficult than for actors.

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

I have never called myself an opera singer. Other people do, but I always call myself a classical singer. I'd love to do opera, but I'm still too young and I don't want to do it until I'm ready. I realise that when I do that it's going to be... up for discussion, shall we say, so I want to get it right.

You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

I know I'm an opera singer, but we're actors, too.

I had opera training for three years, and I have three albums out. I also did a Broadway show. I'm an actor that sings, so it is in my blood. It is in my system.

I took vocal lessons all through my childhood and still do. I was classically trained.

I was an acting opera singer, and that's one of the reasons I left opera.