I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.

The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.

We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.

Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.

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

I am a person of the 18th century.

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

Maturity means being able to tolerate, on all sorts of planes, uncertainty and not knowing.

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

I think if you can take care of yourself, and then maybe try to take care of someone else, that's sort of how you're supposed to live.

I love my fans because they're smart, dude.

Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person.

When you make something fetish, ashes and dusts will laugh at you, because they know even the most valuable fetishes will turn into dusts and ashes!

The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior.

The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share.

I grew up on movie sets and traveling the world with my pops.

I am not taking anything for granted.