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

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

Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it - it was like a kicking foal that does not listen to reason - I have always been told I have a pleasant and recognizable voice.

When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better!

My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.

Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.

I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home.