I am always living very good moments.

Yes, thanks to God... my life has a goal, much more important than my artistic activities, that is the struggle against Leukemia.

I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction.

I've always been a big fan of the American soul sound.

When you arrive at a certain level it's very easy to say yes: that is the moment to learn to say no.

The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukaemia.

I love good food but I follow strict rules the days I perform.

Yes, you must have the courage of being free.

Italians have no sense of the dramatic.

I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a while.

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

No one can surely know what knowledge is without the presence of truth.

You're much better off creating positive rewards, complimenting people for acting correctly, rather than punishing them when they act incorrectly.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

Victory is produced by and belongs to all.

Just proportionately, statistically, one in three women are going to have an abortion. They're not all going to feel guilty.

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.

The intelligent fights only when he must and never for sport.

I like to be treated as a lady.

...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.