I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

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

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

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

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

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

I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?