Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

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

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.

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

I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.