“When you're singing before 15,000 people at a summer concert outside, ...” — Anna Netrebko Quote

“When you're singing before 15,000 people at a summer concert outside, you need to look beautiful, because that's what people want.”

“For me, St. Petersburg is the city that I can never escape because it has this special energy, even a dark energy. It keeps pulling me back.”

“After the baby, I got bigger, and I like it. I like me better now than when I was young and skinny. I don't understand this extreme fashion for being anorexic-skinny. We forgot about women with curves - real women. We're not embracing that anymore.”

“When I am not on the stage, it is always very difficult for the public to find me! I am a private person who does not always want to be in the spotlight!”

“Nobody ever looked at me in Krasnodar. I'm not in the taste of the men there at all.”

“I prefer department stores. In boutiques, they come up and ask you if you need help. I can't get lost in the experience.”

“That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.”

“I couldn't sleep one night, and I didn't know what to do, so I came downstairs and started playing the piano. That's when I wrote the melodies for 'Beautiful Things.' The next day I had a session, and I took it into the studio.”

“My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.”

“I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.”

“There is in us a spark of something good, something right and beautiful.”

“Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.”