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 am a product of my native land, Tuscany, Italy.

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

I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.

I have big, big stage fright.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.