I am a very superstitious person.

I was an elementary school teacher.

Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?

Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.

The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.

I am a very superstitious person.

Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.

I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.

People have a right to criticize.

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another.

I am open to everything.

The reason fat people are happy is that the nerves are well protected.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

Horse riding is a perfect comparison with singing.You must know where the double fences are.

The reason fat people are happy is that their nerves are well protected.

Not too many years ago, both parties acknowledged that our entitlement commitments were a sword hanging over our heads. But when President George W. Bush tried to begin discussions on Social Security reform, Democrats ridiculed and demonized him and told seniors he was after their nest eggs.

I want Prince to see something I do and call me and ask me to be on an album or if I want to dance!

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game not after. It always works in our picnic matches

The early gigs were pretty panicky - and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take anything brand new, for the first time in years.

I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.

As an actor and a writer, the anxiety about doing TV is that you start to feel like you get married to one tone or one kind of idea and you feel like you want to be able to express a lot of different things.

The Lagos of my childhood was a well-laid-out maritime city.

I feel really productive. I'm very competitive with myself. I'm a scheduler. I'm always trying to keep everything together - I'm very OCD and very organized.

When life gets tough there's always nail polish.

Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Business owners have made a strong case to me that they need guest workers. But none has suggested that these workers should be placed on a path to citizenship.

Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.

I was very studious.

Not just my parents, but teachers, friends, mentors - a host of people are to be thanked for any success I have had, and a whole lot of just plain luck.

Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.

What's really scary about the original 'Blair Witch' is that it doesn't really answer any questions, so what makes that ending so scary is you walk out feeling dirty because you don't even know what happened. It feels wrong.