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

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

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

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

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

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

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.