But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.

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

I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

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.

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

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