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When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.

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

I'm the only one who still believes in Santa Claus!

All I've done all my life is disobey.

When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others.

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

Death does not exist.

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

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

You say things that make my eyes close and I find that marvelous.

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.

I can die now. I've lived twice.

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.

People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

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

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.

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

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

I'm sure that I've already been dead.

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

Love goes on a journey, like I do
One day I'll find it
By the time I see its face
I'll recognize it right away

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

Death is the beginning of something.

I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly ...

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

I don't lie; I improve on my life.

Drugs are a carnival in hell.

I don't want to die an old lady.

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

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