In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.

Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed.

Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit.

Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.

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

The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means of expression.

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.