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.

I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.

Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder.

In singing, you cannot 'cheat' if you want to give emotions to those who are listening. You must have something to tell.

I am a product of my native land, Tuscany, Italy.

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.

My idol has been Franco Corelli. But every singer can teach you something.