You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.

You go beyond 'I want it. I want to have it' - to - 'I'm going to have it

You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.

My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.