Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.

The themes I sing about tend to be centered on love, but in the most total, general way 360 degrees of love.

I like very much to ride horses. I like soccer, I have had a passion for boxing since I was a child, although it would be stupid for me to box.

To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.

Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit.

I have big, big stage fright.

All that counts in life is intention.