I am always living very good moments.
I love good food but I follow strict rules the days I perform.
Certain things give you another perspective in life.
Your real feelings are inside you.
I have great emotion every time I go on stage. Nothing in life gives me the same satisfaction that my profession gives me.
I carry on singing because I love it. The closer you are to the end, the more you understand how important it is.
Even out of severe difficulty, some positive things come.
I'm a very fortunate man. I have in life everything I could dream of.
I cannot imagine stopping singing. It is so nice that I even do it as a hobby.
It is not easy for me to sing consonants, and I am sorry if I don't sing the 'S'.
I have thrown chairs, but only during football matches. Generally, I am well-behaved. I do not like to make people angry.
The voice is like a man, like ourselves: we all feel melancholic about what we have lost, the things we could do when we were young. But having the possibility to still perform is wonderful. The voice loses elasticity as you age, but on the other hand, maybe you are more mature as an interpreter, maybe your approach to singing deepens.
If you are burned, you are naturally anxious to see what your face looks like as soon as they take the bandages off. In my case, it was my voice that was my main concern.
If I can do concert recitals, adapting the repertoire to my needs, then no problem, that's good enough. But with operas, unless the right circumstances come up, my career is done.
People naturally want to know about what happened, about my leukemia. They ask the same questions again and again. And there have been so many positive conclusions, even through the bad times, that I don't mind at all to be reminded of my struggles.
In recitals, you are naked before the audience - well, naked with your jacket and tails. The audience sees and hears the real person, not some role you are interpreting.
What originates everything are the emotions, the feelings, what we call soul. Then the brain commands these feelings to the voice. The voice is just the vehicle; it's the very last step in the chain.
In certain professions, you can love your profession; you can do it in a very professional way and do it wonderfully, but you do not have this possibility to communicate with others - I express myself singing, and I think this is a real luxury.
