We look in... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent.

I had hoped that he has mouth smell or something other repelling, but nothing! It was even charming.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman.

I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something

I find that one must accept the people in such a way as they are.

Music wasn't history class

I loved her not for the way she danced with my angels, but for the way the sound of her name could silence my demons.

Always abide by your positive principles even if it would result in most of your friends abandoning you. Friendship is about quality not quantity.

One should respect a defeated opponent!

whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys.

I've always had facility with the German accent.

It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever.

The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

I half-punched a paparazzo once. I've hit a few people.