Ildar Abdrazakov

Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name.

Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.

I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim.

I spent 25 years clearly understanding that I'm not gonna meet Bono or the Edge. But then it happened at the Grammys when we were all backstage and I just about fell out of my shoes.