I also always carry my flute. It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.

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.

Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.

Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it - it was like a kicking foal that does not listen to reason - I have always been told I have a pleasant and recognizable voice.

Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.

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.

Very often, I recognize many, many defects, so I try to improve myself every day. I think my voice is very communicative.