Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person or something you've experienced, just think of a dog or cat that you love.

My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.

"Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.

It's the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things, and they had to be told off. And if we continue this kind of violence and accept it in our country, the rest of the world's going to really take care of us, in a very bad way.

I have been very fortunate to have been able to make a living from what I love to do best - performing and singing for people.

To work is to feel alive.