Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life.

I've been buying the same lambrusco from Correggio [a town between Reggio-Emilia and Modena] since 1965.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

The reason fat people are happy is that the nerves are well protected.