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.

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.

I have big, big stage fright.

You have to have great passion, because to sing operatic music requires lots of work. I study for at least two hours every day. The voice is like an instrument and requires constant exercise.

I am not only fighting against something, I am fighting for something - and I am for life.

Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.

The voice is something very mysterious. It's difficult to say what is inside a voice that moves people.