| Here's this week's final extract from Il Divo's autobiography Il Divo: Our Music, Our Journey, Our Words, out in shops now.
This time, Urs talks about his love for music...
"I just love singing on a stage. The emotion of the song sends shivers down my spine. I feel music, am passionate about it. In that instant it's all I need. There are some songs, like 'Curaso', when I just stand there and think, 'Oh, God, this is so wonderful'. I wouldn't care if the hall was empty. I used to say this to Carlos, Sébastien and David in the early days of Il Divo, but I don't think they really believed me. Still it's true that I don't need the whole fame thing; it is the process of making the music that satisfies a deep need in me. I get so much from it. I am never able to sleep until two or three o'clock in the morning after a performance, because it's such an adrenaline rush. When I lived in Amsterdam, singing operas, I would go home afterwards and listen to the whole piece again until the early hours of the morning. My friends and colleagues used to think I was completely crazy. But that's what music does to me."
This time Sebastien talks about his childhood dreams and passions."In those days people were always telling me that I was hopeless and a bad student and that I would never amount to anything. Surprisingly, these criticisms didn't make me feel downhearted. On the contrary, they made me all the more determined to prove otherwise. Later on, when I realized my eyesight was too poor for me to be a pilot for a big company like Air France, I was upset, but tried to be philosophical. 'Okay', I thought, 'that dream's over. But I have an even greater passion in my life: music. If I work really hard at it, all will be well'. I worked so hard, in fact, that it became my whole life, so much so that sometimes I forgot to eat; the music became my food, my energy. I would sit there, eyes closed, dreaming of nothing but music for hours and hours. It became my everything, and it still is today. I've always thought that dreams are very important. People who find themselves stuck in a rut are in that position because they have no dreams. You have to have dreams. If you don't, you can't make them come true. I once read somewhere, 'Vie tes reves, mais ne reve pas ta vie'. I love the meaning of this - Live your dreams, but don't dream your life.".
David talks about what makes Il Divo so special.
"From the start, Il Divo was - and remains - a democracy. There's no lead singer in our group. We all share the leads and work in harmony with each other - and that's cool.
I'd describe myself as a typical middle child, doubtless because I was a middle child. I remember always feeling like the go-between in my family when I was growing up, and the same thing is true in Il Divo, especially at the beginning.
I was definitely the go-between when it came to overcoming the language barriers. As we had all decided that English was going to be our main language of communication (luckily for me), it meant that anything said was interpreted - or misinterpreted - four different ways (unluckily for me, as I was the one who had to sort things out after tempers flared over a syntax error).
Most of our early difficulties were ones of translation, and once we'd worked out what the misunderstanding was, we often found we were actually all saying the same thing."
Here's what Carlos has to say..."I guess I could say I have lived a charmed life. From childhood onwards, one success has followed another. But that doesn't mean that I have never experienced unhappiness, grief or heartbreak. I first fell passionately in love when I was twelve years old and, just as my feelings for her were at their most intense, she broke my heart and went off with another boy. Since then I have had my heart broken on several occasions and have learned the hard way what it feels like to experience pain, loss and suffering. Those heartbreaks, though, have a plus side. Many arias and songs are about unrequited love, yearning and loss, and my personal heartbreaks have certainly affected how I sing them."
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dovrei curarmi... ma, non c'è un antidoto XDXD
) anche David che ha parlato dei problemi iniziali fra di loro... Posso immaginare come si saranno attaccati certe volte!! 
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