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.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

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.

It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.

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.

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

I am open to everything.