Every day I do new things, Im very happy to live in this loop. I live — Sarah Toscano

"I still dont feel like populate. Of course, walking through the streets of my city there are people who stop and ask me for a photo, its a beautiful thing."

"In my opinion Amici is not a competition or just a talent show, but a school of life, because a leap like this is only made when human relationships are real, when you are "friends" with a capital "A". At four years old my father Marco asked me what I wanted to do as a hobby. I told him that I wanted to play the piano, which was already played in the family, and to play tennis. My parents immediately allowed me to do both. I consider myself very lucky. Tennis, which I played at a competitive level, was fundamental. Its an individual sport: if you win, you just win, ditto if you lose. On the field I almost eat the ball as much as I want to do it."

"I am in favor of criticism because I think that even negative criticism helps everyone grow, both as a person and as an artist. For me its important to know from people who dont like you what the reason is for trying to improve yourself. Among the compliments, however, I am pleased when they tell me that I am genuine and simple. I like that it comes out that Im not a big person. I feel like the same person as before with a little more awareness. Before I was completely out of this world and now Im realizing that I can face it. Obviously there are people who like me who support me and, therefore, having this little extra awareness doesnt hurt."

"My father was a piano teacher, while my mother played the piano: it goes without saying that the passion in me was born very early and that my parents have always supported me, advising me to play the classical piano while I was singing. I lived my life with everyone singing around me – whatever passion I had, my family always supported me. If this doesnt happen, you unfortunately start with one point less."

"When I was ten I was very sure of myself; once a year I skied and on that occasion I was always convinced that I would win all the competitions and in fact I did. I threw myself into it without fear. Then I moved on to tennis and I started to be more afraid of making mistakes. I got scared and started making more mistakes than I would have if I hadnt had all that paranoia. I started to doubt myself, to have no self-esteem. On some days its freezing, on others its below zero. I am very self-critical and I always want to give my best, I think this is the reason. I feel a bit Sexy Magica: I understand it as synonymous with carefreeness. I do what I feel like doing, Im myself."