To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day.

The high note is not the only thing.

In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.

I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.

I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.

Don`t you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity.

Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

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.

But I won`t deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

My strength is my enthusiasm.

There are two big categories of people that do not go to the opera. Some who will never have the financial or cultural means of doing it.

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.

I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.

The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

The public is a part of my real life.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.

We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.

Resting becomes a discipline in itself.

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.

This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.