“I go through every single emotion. My artistic life will likely be sho...” — Kristine Opolais Quote

“I go through every single emotion. My artistic life will likely be shorter than it could be because everything is for real for me. This is my life and my soul.”

“I wrote my own pop songs and sang one of them when I went into a stupid beauty competition when I was 16. That was my public debut, and it made my mother even more determined that I should go into opera!”

“The point is that I am such a big fan of Puccini and that Butterfly is the most difficult and complete role that you can imagine. Just to sing it with a good voice is not enough: it asks tears from your soul. I am very emotional on stage, and the music is so tender that I suffer for real when I am singing it. So I cannot do many performances.”

“Prince had always told us he just wanted to get through this thing called life. But now that his own physical life has ended, his artistic life will continue.”

“My dad's also a musician, so jazz was always around the house. When I was 11, I developed an interest in it, and he took me to Leimert Park. At that time, it was the artistic hub of L.A., and it was right in South Central. The first concert I went to, I saw Pharoah Sanders at the World Stage club there, which only holds, like, 30 people.”