I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks.

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.

I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

It's always beautiful to sing with other great voices. I like voices in general. It's a big privilege to have great singers next to me.

Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra comes later. For me, it's terrible.

A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.

The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.