The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.

What is sad is not to be able to do today what you have done in your youth. But what is good is to remember that - when you were able - you did it to the best of your ability.

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

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.