It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.

I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules.

I'm from Planet Nomi where I wear black lipstick so you can see my lips and what I am doing with them.

I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work is meant to get people out of that.

Elvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother.

What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.

A man without makeup is like a cake without icing.

It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human history.

I did every thing, even dirty jobs like dishwashing or delivery boy for a grocer.

I come as the wicked witch from the Barock era.

People should allow me to be many things, really give me the room to put things in another dimension.

(on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.

There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.

Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.

I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future.

Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.

As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.

Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?

The lie that started it all.