"Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there."

“Be fearless and don't be afraid of failure. There is no better way to learn than through trial-and-error.”

“If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then it means that something has been won from reality.”

“My films are about embarrassment.”

“Chart positions aren't the be all and end all.”

“Oh, hear Him within you speaking this infinite love,moving like some divine and audible leaven,lifting the sky of the soul with expansions of light, shaping new heights and new depths,and, at your stir of assent,spreading the mountains with flame, filling the hollows with Heaven.”

Source : Jessica Powers (2015). “The Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers”, p.57, ICS Publications

“The more we rely on the market, the more hooked we become on its promises: Do you need a tidier closet? A nicer family picture album? Elderly parents who are truly well cared for? Children who have an edge in school, on tests, in college and beyond? If we can afford the services involved, many if not most of us are prone to say, 'Sure, why not?”

“The operas that I do are more in the operetta world, but I've gotten to do them in all of these major opera companies so it's been really wild. And I feel comfortable in that world because I went Cincinnati Conservatory and I hung out with all those kinds of people, I love hanging out with them and I understand them and their "diva-osity."”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com

“If the right job came along, absolutely with bells on I would work in Sweden.”