She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.

It is very grand and sumptuous and awesome to look at but it was really about the characters for me.

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.

Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.

There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'