Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

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

Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

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.

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.

Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.