If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite.

The world is full of many beautiful voices; I will perform with many of them. I love women's voices.

In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.

Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.

While they are kids, my children must do as I say.

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 trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.