When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

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 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.

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

I think sometimes you are born with a song.

Intelligence and perserverance cannot defeat the purpose of popularity because it can describe a trait of a successful person who is prominent.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

A crumb is a great thing: If you break a crumb in half, you don't get two half-crumbs, you get two crumbs. Doesn't that violate some law of physics?

The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.

Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will probably provide a great story for future biographers.

I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, the same as I've believed all my life.

All photographs are self-portraits.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

If you can solve your problem, what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, what is the use of worrying.

Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.