Andrea Bocelli

Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.

Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.

My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.

Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed.

It is not Christian to go against someone. I am in favour of life.

I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.

All that counts in life is intention.

Because I practice often with my children at home.

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

When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.

Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother - who was a very religious person - so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience.

Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.