I feel at home in an orchestral score.
On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.
My strength is my enthusiasm.
Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.
It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.
In the last century, everybody was singing lower.
If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.
I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.
I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.
I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.
The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.
I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.
Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.
Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?
But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.