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.

We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.

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

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

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

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

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.