While they are kids, my children must do as I say.

I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.

The themes I sing about tend to be centered on love, but in the most total, general way 360 degrees of love.

Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.

In singing, you cannot 'cheat' if you want to give emotions to those who are listening. You must have something to tell.

I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home.

In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.