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

Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.

The voice is something very mysterious. It's difficult to say what is inside a voice that moves people.

Music is able to make a person dream. When you dream, you dream of something good, something beautiful, and when you dream, you always dream of yourself better than you are.

My style in Italian is very old-style.

It is not Christian to go against someone. I am in favour of life.

When you sing opera you are very far from the people, you are onstage, and between you and the people there is the orchestra. So you have to launch your emotions very, very far. When you sing pop, you are singing very close - the microphone is very close to your mouth. You can whisper your emotions into the microphone.