Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

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

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

If you know why you fall in love, you aren't in love

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

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

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.