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

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.

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.

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men, ' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.

Just because you are on a path to damnation, doesn’t mean you’re going to get there. Be willing to change your travel plans.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and crazy people.

Flying has opened up new horizons for tennis.

Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.

Dad: someone who hopes his son will turn out just like him, and who is afraid his daughters will meet someone who did.

A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.

We're all human beings with bodily needs living within a system. We don't need to prove that we're not a part of the fabric of the culture in order to want to change it.

I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.