I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.
On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.
Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.
When I'm about to train a new opera, I first listen to how Jussi Bjรถrling did it. His voice was unique and it's his path that I want to follow. I would more than anything else wish that people compared me with Jussi Bjรถrling. It's like so I'm striving to sing.
The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.
Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.