Like Stars Across The Sky, We Were

My Real Passion Is For Opera. It Was Born And Developed By Listening To Records, And My Dream As A Child Was To Record Entire Operas When I Grew Up, And This Dream Came True.

I Don't Have An Extraordinary Degree Of Self-confidence, But I Know The Gift I Have Been Given From God And I Try To Share It With As Many People As Possible. Having A Great Voice Is Not A Merit. I Don't Think It Is A Merit.

When I Began Singing, It Was The First Time I Was Happy In My Life. As A Baby, I Would Stop Crying When I Heard A Great Singer.

I First Started Playing In Piano Bars For Three Reasons - To Make Money, To Be In The Company Of My Friends - And Also To Hook Up With Young Girls. I Always Knew, Even Before I Played In Piano Bars, About The Effect Of My Voice.

I Like Reading... French, Russian Classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I Also Like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.