To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

Drugs are a carnival in hell.