Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much of it as I can back to children.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.

When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.

UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.

It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

I don't love men that love other women. I think more of myself then that.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.

Now, if some panic hits me, you have to sort of be friends with your body, it's like your body will work against you.

Over the course of my career, I've had the great fortune of working with some incredible filmmakers who have protected me and inspired me and taught me what an honor it is to work in film.

Revolt is the right of the people

In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe.

I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.

You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people.

I'm very easy to see on the podium because everyone else is small!