Music isn't only a profession.

I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a while.

Italians have no sense of the dramatic.

Yes, thanks to God... my life has a goal, much more important than my artistic activities, that is the struggle against Leukemia.

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

In the last 20, 22 years I have sung here very often and I have always felt the affection and warmth of the Italians, and I feel very close to you.

It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.