Even In The Most Beautiful Music There

I Like To Windsurf And Ski, And Most Of All I Love To Ride Horses. The Wilder And Faster The Better! If I'm Presented With A Fast Horse Or A Fast Boat, I Still Get That Shiver Of Excitement And I Cannot Resist. Luckily I Never Seem To Have Any Accidents, And Thank God For That.

Every Audience Has Its Character; I Like America - They Love Me. I Suffer From Stage Fright, But In America Not So Much.

I'm Most Impressed By The Russian Writers, So I Love Reading The Works Of Tolstoy And Dostoyevsky. Another Author Who Has Informed The Way I Think Is The French Philosopher, Blaise Pascal.

A Voice Is Very Intimate. It's Something Of Your Own. So There's Always This Fear, Because You Feel Naked. There's A Fear Of Not Reaching Up To Expectations. As You Become More Famous, People Come And Expect To Hear Something Extraordinary, So You Don't Want To Disappoint Them. I Feel This Sense Of Responsibility.

An Opera Singer Is Like An Athlete Before A Match. An Athlete Cannot Overdo Anything. In Order To Perform At The Highest Possible Level, You Need To Refrain From Activities So As To Be Able To Express This Power.