I want to have time for myself, my family and my friends. It's important because in order to sing well, you must have inspiration, and inspiration comes from life, from living.

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.

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

A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations. As you become more famous, people come and expect to hear something extraordinary, so you don't want to disappoint them. I feel this sense of responsibility.

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

When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great.

I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.