When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.

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.

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

The king's "only interest in government was a pious but simpleminded desire for reproachment

Boredom is a kind reminder that we've shadowed our creativity

Speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts.

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

No luck was dumb because luck was just another name for miracle.

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

The only thing my mother would say to me about my music - I'd say, "Mom, listen to this," and she'd say, "Junior, I know who you are."

There is no such thing as sleep deprivation, there is only caffeine deficiency.

Ronald Reagan set the stage for the end of the Cold War.