Every time I bought a Rock and Roll record, I bought a classical record at the same time. I like each as well as the other.

Elvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother.

When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.

Sometimes I sing very honestly, really as moving as possible.

I do kind of transcend the song and give it a different meaning.

I think it is nice to be a little magical. Today we need this. All that we can read in fairy tales or in books. I think somewhere it is all around us. But nowadays we can think that this magic has been killed and I am try to make it survive as long as possible.

It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human history.