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.

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

This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.

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

I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.

The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.

On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.