I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out.

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

If your body is not in shape to sing [from the diaphragm] you will push and push but keep falling back on your throat to make the sound. This will ruin your voice.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.

As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully.

If I go three days without vocalizing, the voice is gone.