The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.

There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.

If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.

I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

I think sometimes you are born with a song.

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

I was born a singer. I need to do that.

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

The idea of the European community is never face a war again.

UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.

When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.