Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.

When I'm about to train a new opera, I first listen to how Jussi Björling 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 Björling. It's like so I'm striving to sing.

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

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.

I think Beijing deserves the Olympics in order to be with all the rest of the world recognized.

I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.

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.