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.

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.

When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better!

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.

My style in Italian is very old-style.

I listen to music every day for study reasons, and I confess that I have very little knowledge of what is going on in the hit parades around the world. I have no prejudices for any kind of music genre, and I listen with pleasure to many songs on the radio that my children already know of by heart, while I hear them practically for the first time.

To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.