People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.

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.

When young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape...

Imagination is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Fire is one of our best friends in this cold universe. Put some wood in it to show your gratitude.

Better to suffer than to die.

I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.

A bikeway is a symbol that shows that a citizen on a $30 bicycle is equally important as a citizen on a $30,000 car.

Everything beeps now.

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

We who are placed above the crowd are not climbing ... so we are never out of breath.

What miracle is God fashioning out of this misfortune?