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.

I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.

When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.

A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.

I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.

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.

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