“I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new ...” — Renee Fleming Quote

I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.

Opera is really fun.

I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends.

I get a lot of e-mail messages from people who say thanks for giving them a place to vent, an outlet to say what they can't say in real life with friends and work colleagues - things that they know are wrong, but they still want to say. Is it right? No, of course not. People say some disgusting, vile things.

I think I have met nearly all the Laureates in Economics. Among the few I haven't met, I suppose I'd most like to meet Ronald Coase because of his legendary power to persuade his colleagues of the validity of the Coase Theorem.

In general, writers who talk to their colleagues and neighbors constantly about their own writing seem to me pretty insufferable. I try not to be that guy.