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I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

I wanted to be a set designer when I was young.

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.

Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.

To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.

I wanted to be a fashion designer.

The fact that I could secure an opera engagement made me realize I had within me the making of an artist, if I would really labor for such an end. When I became thoroughly convinced of this, I was transformed from an amateur into a professional in a single day.

I was an absolutely untalented designer.

I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.