When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great.

I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.

When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it.

Some of us are born with a weakness for music. As a baby, music would stop whatever thought I was having. If I was worried, it would stop me worrying; if I was crying, it would stop me crying. Music was a healing thing for me.

Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.

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

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