Dichter / Poet Ebenfalls / Also Freundlich / Kindly Hätten / Had Kaum / Barely Könnte / Could Könnte sein / Maybe Melodie / Tune Mir / Me Obwohl / Though Sänger / Singer Sogar / Even Titel / Title Tragen / Carry Während / While
I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.
Success came to us at an age where we could enjoy it. We went through a lot of hard times, so we appreciate success all the more now.
It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.
I had a galvanised voice: I could sing through a 105 fever or a flu or a root canal or anything that you could throw at me.
Many African people are smarter than me - kids who could have been better. I have no claim for genius.
I've always gone to see all kinds of shows and stole what I could, as we all do. We see an artist and hear a song and think, 'I bet I could sing that song. I'll put that in my show.'
Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.
But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.
