“'La Marseillaise' sounds best ringing around a packed sports stadium. ...” — Engelbert Humperdinck Quote

“'La Marseillaise' sounds best ringing around a packed sports stadium. Its lyrics evoke revolution, conflict, taking up arms, preparing for the fight - everything my music does not! Even in our largely peaceful times, it retains its rousing, martial air that gives it a power that hasn't diminished.”

“The job of an artist is to entertain and not get involved with politics. We give the people in the countries we are visiting a good show - that's the purpose of an entertainer.”

“When a person finally has the courage to say, 'This is who I am,' and society is not there to welcome them with open arms, it is so tragic.”

“I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone.”

“I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.”