I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.

The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.

When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it.

It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger.

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

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.

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