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

I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.

If you don't have the possibility of listening to music, you can't know if you love it.

I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.

An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.

I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.

When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.