I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

Music is the best way for me to say I love you.

I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!

It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on.

There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.

In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.

My songs always speak of love, that's the way I like them.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

Me, I say too much optimism will get you killed.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.

People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.

There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best.

You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ... it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.

I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them.

You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.

Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.