Sometimes I sing very honestly, really as moving as possible.

I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work is meant to get people out of that.

I did every thing, even dirty jobs like dishwashing or delivery boy for a grocer.

I am singing in an operatic voice for the public, to bring something more to Rock and Roll. Because in a Rock and Roll performance, the singer talks to the public whereas in Opera the singer only talks to a character, inside a story. The public sees this as a picture, I want to transport this picture into the room where the public is.

I see myself as universal, not as a German, American, French or whatever, because we all live on this planet. We're all living on the earth.

My music is L-O-V-E because it's a gift, and you only give something when you feel it deeply.

I think it is nice to be a little magical. Today we need this. All that we can read in fairy tales or in books. I think somewhere it is all around us. But nowadays we can think that this magic has been killed and I am try to make it survive as long as possible.