Every time I bought a Rock and Roll record, I bought a classical record at the same time. I like each as well as the other.

I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules.

Elvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother.

The way I look it is hard to look like a normal person. You know, in the streets when I was a kid, people always said I looked strange, and it made me feel unhappy.

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

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

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.