I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.

Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.

Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.

I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.