When you are accompanied by the instrument-on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice-you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.

I think at least God said hello to me. I was lucky, lucky to have the voice, but also lucky to have this energy to really want to do this.

Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.

When I suggested a Vivaldi disc [in the late 90s], it was difficult to convince them to do it. But it was enormously successful and I proved that there was an audience ready to discover it. I like to present a project which has both a commercial and a cultural element. I try to combine them.