My style in Italian is very old-style.

I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.

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

If you don't have the possibility of listening to music, you can't know if you love it.

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.

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.

Even in the most beautiful music, there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence. Silence is more important than ever, as life today is full of noise. We speak a lot about environmental pollution but not enough about noise pollution.