We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.

When it becomes clear that no one else shares your level of passion, you are where you belong.

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

The high note is not the only thing.

Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.

I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.

My strength is my enthusiasm.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then—our friends are not able to finish their stories.

No lie, secret, betrayal, or mistake will remain concealed if you have a past.

If dirt was trumps what hands you would hold!

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life.

If I could edit Google Images, then I wouldn't be as scared of the Internet.

I have no relationship with Vladimir Putin.

While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.

A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.

Consistent physical structures can allow unbounded intuitive clarity.