For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
“It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.”
“I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.”