The Italians are not indulgent, as Americans are. They don't have the patience to teach young singers how to move. They think you should learn in school.

I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera and singing. My father really supported me economically.

I want my wife and children to travel always with me and share good things and bad things. That's what the family is for.

An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.

If everything comes in your way just the way you wanted them to, then you're probably in the wrong lane.

...pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect.

You have been the last dream of my soul.

Dude, maybe not everyone loves 'Glee.' Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn't my thing.

Everybody has their different tastes with television - there are some characters people like, some characters people hate.

We Deveauxs preferred to talk you to death, rather than face you in physical combat.

Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now its nascent.

I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.