I play golf and ride my motorcycle - my Harley - around the hills of California.
— Engelbert Humperdinck
I drink a lot of water and a lot of wine. I'm a wine drinker. Red wine, preferably.
I'm a TV buff. I watch television.
The man who became a big influence in my life was Dean Martin. He started my career in Las Vegas. When I came to Las Vegas, he put his name on the marquee: 'Dean Martin presents Engelbert Humperdinck.' And I'm the only one he ever did that for.
I still get nervous before every performance.
I've always loved romantic songs.
If I'm off the road, I get itchy feet. It's my work, my job.
I never wanted to be a movie star because it takes up too much of your time. I prefer the style of touring and making new music.
I hate holding grudges.
Retirement has never entered my mind for one moment because I don't feel the age I am - and I don't act it, and I don't speak like it. When God calls me, that's when I stop. Until then, I'm going to just keep going.
I do believe I did see UFOs, in Leicester.
The Walker Brothers, they were a talented pair of people. I thought that Scott had a very fine voice.
I do like rude jokes. They're men jokes.
When I'm working, I always eat around 5:30-6 P.M. I don't eat anything after that because I don't think you should put anything into your body before bed.
Ghosts exist.
I am a faith healer. My prayers have immense power, which I utilise whenever I can.
The pomp, power, and military bombast of 'La Marseillaise' draws me into the history of France and my own. The surname I was born with was French: D'Orsay; perhaps an ancestor was amongst those troops that marched to this evocative anthem for the first time as they entered Paris 200 years ago!
I recorded songs with a great deal of meaning, songs of lasting material. That's the legacy I want to leave behind - a legacy of love.
I always take a hot shower before I go onstage. It's so refreshing. I let the steam into my throat. That's the way I warm up my vocal cords - in the shower. I start by humming and then finally singing.
Eventually, when I recorded 'Release Me,' it sort of stamped my style, and I've followed in that vein ever since.
My first manager was Gordon Mills, who I'd met right at the beginning. We shared a flat in London and traveled with rock bands doing one-nighters. Later, he became a songwriter and manager whose stable was Tom Jones, Gilbert O'Sullivan, and myself.
I thing Ed Sheeran is fantastic.
I had a home in Las Vegas for about eight years, starting in 1978.
As long as I can make albums, I will.
The best feeling I get is when I walk on stage.
When I'm performing, sometimes a lyric will touch on my personal life, and it can be difficult to sing. For instance, when I sing 'How I Love You,' I'll choke up.
'Driving Home For Christmas' is just a great Christmas song because people are in their cars and driving home.
I don't put faces on a dartboard. I just love the game, and I think I play it very well.
I have a very good sense of humour. I love telling jokes, especially on the golf course.
Naughtiness is a part of growing up. It starts when you're a toddler and never ends.
My father was 91 when he passed away of natural causes, and my mother died aged 88. She had a heart condition and had many heart attacks throughout her life, but she had ten children, so that would have put a strain on her body.
Elvis stole his sideburns from me.
When the BBC approached me, it just felt right for me to be a part of an institution like Eurovision.
I've had many highs in my career, and Eurovision has been a wonderful experience.
I work out: I do a little jump-rope. I punch a bag in the gym. I do the treadmill. I do stationary-bike exercise. I maintain a healthy diet.
I really enjoy what I do. And if you want a lasting career, you have to work at it. Keep it current. Keep it fresh.
At seventeen years old, I found out I could sing, and I got up and sang in a club, and I got a big hand, and I thought, 'I'm gonna continue this.' So that's how it all began.
In my early days, I sang rock stuff, but the career didn't kick until '67.
The vocal chords are like most other muscles that need to be worked out.
There was a time I'd do 300 shows a year.
I always feel discontent, like there's somewhere else to go, somewhere else to be. I'm a very ambitious person.
I was very unsure of myself when I was young and an ugly little beggar with protruding teeth, so I used to lie on them at night to try to straighten them.
I try to keep myself young as possible. I vow to never let my hair go grey.
From me growing up with a large family and everybody singing around the Christmas tree, it was a wonderful, wonderful upbringing.
I've had Harleys on both sides of the Atlantic, so I'm a lover of a Harley motorcycle.
I'm very superstitious.
I have a nine handicap in golf - I can always find time for a round - and I'm on my treadmill and cross-trainer every day.
I had tuberculosis in my mid-20s. I didn't have much work, was living in a damp London basement in a sleeping bag, and ate only every other day. I looked rough and felt very run down.
I bought Jayne Mansfield's mansion in L.A. after her death. I had met her in England and remembered her perfume. When I moved in, I could smell her, and I saw her apparition.
'La Marseillaise' sounds best ringing around a packed sports stadium. Its lyrics evoke revolution, conflict, taking up arms, preparing for the fight - everything my music does not! Even in our largely peaceful times, it retains its rousing, martial air that gives it a power that hasn't diminished.
