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

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.

I think sometimes you are born with a song.

When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again.

We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.

Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.

Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints.

I love reading books, I love the way they feel and getting through it. It's like an event!

I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay with the people I'm photographing for long periods of time.

There's no such thing as being cool. People who pretend to be cool have more emotional layers.

Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you've got nothing left!

A bird, music and food -desert island items

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.