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.

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

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 you see, movies are really another dimension.

As long as the forest stood the Tchetchens were unconquerable... and it is literally the fact that they were beaten in the long run not by the sword but by the axe.

Evil is evil.

May you find solace & be comforted by love’s inner warmth, and glow.

This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school.

My mother was a barmaid and I was raised in a trailer park. I'm used to that language. I put it on the screen so that people could interpret it as they wish.

It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing.

Art as language....in the future there will only be art. This common language will carry the message of love.