I had always sung, as far back as I can remember, for the pure love of it. My voice was contralto, and I sang in a church in Naples from fourteen till I was eighteen.

It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.

She makes me feel like the reason I have a soul is so I have something pure to give her.

My pure love is playing music.

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

Where one has become indifferent (nispruha), there pure love has not arisen. And where there is no pure love, no work can be accomplished there.