And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.

And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.

But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.

But it's always really difficult to find someone that has the qualities to be a great accompanist.

But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.

I am very conscious in what I am choosing. Maybe sometimes I put something there and I make a mistake, but it is not because I want to make a mistake.

I like the word of someone that takes part, who is a singer in something very important, is to make music together.

Even the common gypsy women have a pride and reserve. They stay faithful to one man at a time, no matter what. That is my Carmen.

I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.