I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.