Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.

A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the whole country had a very special atmosphere. I was there to perform, but it was one of the few places that I've visited over the years that I had some free time to explore, and I was hugely impressed by all the religious history there.

I always knew I would sing. I just didn't know if I would be successful or not. But I sang at school, I sang at parties, I sang at church. Everyone always asked me to sing. I'd be playing football with my friends and my parents would ask me to sing for their guests. I was never very happy about that because I wanted to play football.

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

I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science gives hope.

A young pregnant wife has been hospitalized for a simple attack of appendicitis. The doctors had to apply ice to her stomach and when the treatments ended the doctors suggested that she abort the child, they told her it was the 'best solution' because the baby would be born with some disability but the young brave wife decided not to abort, and the child was born. That woman was my Mother and I was the child.

When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.