You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

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.

So you see, movies are really another dimension.

The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

Anything that spreads books and brings about more books, I would say it is good. Good medicine, not bad.

The Greatest Enemy of Confidence is Inexperience

It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

I'd like to live every moment of my life, but not a moment after.

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Give me a 6 pack, half-hour of rest and lets go play them again - We can beat them.

I'm able to actually choose places to go which have intrigued me for the last god knows how many years, and Tasmania's always been one of those places.

With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.