I believe in the philosophy of turning the other cheek.

My father was a great admirer of music and the arts, so there was always a lot of culture in the house. As it happened, while my father was the ambassador in Portugal, the ambassador's residence had a piano, and so I started learning how to play it at the age of five.

For me, everybody is the same. If you are not nice to me, I will say, 'Okay, we will try to make it nice tomorrow.' I am like that. I am not a confrontational person.

I am glad that my weight never affected my singing career, but other than this, I faced a lot problems: like, I was unable to talk for 20 minutes after coming down from the stage after my shows. I got very tired because of my fatness.

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

It's so God-given - my talent - because it took so very little time to get it down to where I was able to perform.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.