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.

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.

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 think sometimes you are born with a song.

Every experience in the past, prepares us for today. And the present experience equip us for the future.

Your lifestyle should contrast your obedience

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling.

How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.

There are certain people that when they ask you to do a film, you just say, "Where and when?"

Lord Castlerosse was taken to task by Nancy Astor over the size of his stomach. 'What would you say if that was on a woman?' she asked, pointedly. 'Half an hour ago it was,' he replied.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

I am the person who is a mother against drunk driver.