“When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the l...” — Andrea Bocelli Quote

“When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.”

“I also always carry my flute. It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.”

“A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the whole country had a very special atmosphere. I was there to perform, but it was one of the few places that I've visited over the years that I had some free time to explore, and I was hugely impressed by all the religious history there.”

“Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.”

“We went to London, did our first video, 'Girl You Know It's True.' We produced it for $50,000 - our producer put up the money. And we said to the people in Germany, 'I am from New York, he is from Miami. We are Americans.' And I hide it that I'm born in Munich, that I'm German.”

“There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.”