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German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.

I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.

My friends often tell me how very German I still am.

I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.

I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult.

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.