I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.

Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.

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

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

When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy. Because it's the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music.

I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me.