Like stars across the sky, we were born to shine.

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.

It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.

I always knew I would sing. I just didn't know if I would be successful or not. But I sang at school, I sang at parties, I sang at church. Everyone always asked me to sing. I'd be playing football with my friends and my parents would ask me to sing for their guests. I was never very happy about that because I wanted to play football.

More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity.

Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.

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.