I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.

If you don't have the possibility of listening to music, you can't know if you love it.

It's always beautiful to sing with other great voices. I like voices in general. It's a big privilege to have great singers next to me.

I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.

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.

I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.

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.