I think the music of Mozart is like a universe of human feelings, sentiments and fragility, and ... that's why it's so 'actual' in a way, so modern.

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.

So How Much of a THING or THINGS is Enough? And if you have EVERYTHING, have you achieved perfect HAPPINESS?

If you are possessed by an idea you find it expressed everywhere you even smell it.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Mind share before market share.

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

People are dumb and they think that laughing equals cosigning a belief in the ideology, which it doesn't.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.