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Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.

Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.

Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.

Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.

A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.

Because I practice often with my children at home.

Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.

You can be great only if it is your destiny.

To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.

I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.

Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.

All that counts in life is intention.

It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.

Like stars across the sky, we were born to shine.

The themes I sing about tend to be centered on love, but in the most total, general way 360 degrees of love.

A young pregnant wife has been hospitalized for a simple attack of appendicitis. The doctors had to apply ice to her stomach and when the treatments ended the doctors suggested that she abort the child, they told her it was the 'best solution' because the baby would be born with some disability but the young brave wife decided not to abort, and the child was born. That woman was my Mother and I was the child.

I have big, big stage fright.

I was overcome with happiness, love, and tenderness ... Right after he was washed, I studied him with my hands: his downy little head, his little nose, everything on the tiny body.

If you could have the arms of Hercules, legs as swift as the wind. If you could leap shoulder high above the rim, have the kick of a dolphin, the reflexes of a cat. If you could have all these, you would have the body, you would have the tools. But you would not have greatness until you understand that the strongest muscle is the heart. To me, that's the soul of the Olympic Games.

Some of us are born with a weakness for music. As a baby, music would stop whatever thought I was having. If I was worried, it would stop me worrying; if I was crying, it would stop me crying. Music was a healing thing for me.

Even in the most beautiful music, there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence. Silence is more important than ever, as life today is full of noise. We speak a lot about environmental pollution but not enough about noise pollution.