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To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.

I love to conduct opera.

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

But Opera Man, I go, 'Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?' Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.

When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy. Because it's the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music.

I like the idea of people coming to opera for the first time and finding it an enjoyable experience. I don't like the fact that opera is seen as elitist and all black ties and that stuff.

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.