People have a right to criticize.

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

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

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.

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.

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.