The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.
I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.
In the last century, everybody was singing lower.
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.
Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?
Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.