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I've had many highs in my career, and Eurovision has been a wonderful experience.

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!

'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.

When the BBC approached me, it just felt right for me to be a part of an institution like Eurovision.

I am a faith healer. My prayers have immense power, which I utilise whenever I can.

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.

Elvis stole his sideburns from me.

Ghosts exist.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Naughtiness is a part of growing up. It starts when you're a toddler and never ends.

I do like rude jokes. They're men jokes.

I'm very superstitious.

I have a very good sense of humour. I love telling jokes, especially on the golf course.

The Walker Brothers, they were a talented pair of people. I thought that Scott had a very fine voice.

I've had Harleys on both sides of the Atlantic, so I'm a lover of a Harley motorcycle.

I don't put faces on a dartboard. I just love the game, and I think I play it very well.

I do believe I did see UFOs, in Leicester.

From me growing up with a large family and everybody singing around the Christmas tree, it was a wonderful, wonderful upbringing.

'Driving Home For Christmas' is just a great Christmas song because people are in their cars and driving home.

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 try to keep myself young as possible. I vow to never let my hair go grey.

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.

I hate holding grudges.

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.

The best feeling I get is when I walk on stage.

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 always feel discontent, like there's somewhere else to go, somewhere else to be. I'm a very ambitious person.

As long as I can make albums, I will.

If I'm off the road, I get itchy feet. It's my work, my job.

There was a time I'd do 300 shows a year.

I had a home in Las Vegas for about eight years, starting in 1978.

I've always loved romantic songs.

The vocal chords are like most other muscles that need to be worked out.

I thing Ed Sheeran is fantastic.

I still get nervous before every performance.

In my early days, I sang rock stuff, but the career didn't kick until '67.

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.

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.

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.

Eventually, when I recorded 'Release Me,' it sort of stamped my style, and I've followed in that vein ever since.

I'm a TV buff. I watch television.

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.

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.

I drink a lot of water and a lot of wine. I'm a wine drinker. Red wine, preferably.

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 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 play golf and ride my motorcycle - my Harley - around the hills of California.

Gene Simmons and I look so much alike!

I learned a lot from Elvis. He never took his image seriously. So many performers today put their image before themselves. It can ruin them. Like Elvis, I never took my image seriously.

I don't ever want to think my time is up as a performer. I have been afforded the opportunity to sell 150 million albums, to travel to places I never thought I would go. I'm going to keep on performing. I hope it never ends.

A man can be as sexy as he wants to be.

I know I haven't spent a lot of time with my children because my job takes me all over the world and takes me away from my children, but I've given them a good education and security. If anything happens to me, my children's future is well-secured. So I think I've done well as a father.

I'm a very good husband. And a very good father.

My first manager chose the name Engelbert Humperdinck for me. My real name is Arnold George Dorsey. It didn't really quite hit the entertainment industry the way it should have. But when my manager chose the name Engelbert Humperdinck, I had a hit record immediately, which was called 'Release Me.'

I've had more paternity suits than casual suits.

I can go in front of thousands of people on stage and not be afraid, but when there's just a few people, that scares me.

My job is to entertain people and make them happy. I'm blessed to be able to do that.

I like the name Engelbert. It's unusual. But Humperdinck? Not so much.

I am not a circus performer.

There are times when adverse publicity has hit my life, but these things are the growing pains of showbiz marriage.

I am a balladeer. People fall in love to ballads, and that is what makes the world go round.

I've seen many great performers on stage, from Dean Martin to Celine Dion, but nothing beats the first time I saw Elvis. There was no pomp, no pyrotechnics, nothing to distract you from the raw talent of the man in the white jumpsuit.

I had a mustache for 10 years.

I have dreams where everything will disappear or go away, so I'm always working harder each year.

I've always believed applause is food for an artist.

My fans have supported me in concerts around the world regardless of how well my current album was selling.

In my concerts, I'm always doing new songs, so someone seeing me for the first time or many times before will be pleasantly surprised and hopefully entertained.

When people hear romantic songs, they fall in love.

I have represented romance all my life. Some have called me the 'King of Romance.'

There's something very special about playing Las Vegas, and I never tire of being here.

I don't have the slightest idea of how to do vocal exercises or scales or anything like that, but I did always know to breath properly from the stomach. I'm a pop singer and never really felt I needed more.

In the end, I didn't think I was good enough to use sax as a stage performer to get where I wanted, and thank God I chose my voice as my instrument instead. You need to be honest with yourself, and I was.

Fifty - it's going to be for the rest of my life. I'm going to count myself as a 50-year-old, sing like I'm 50, and act like I am, too. That's how I feel, and I believe if you have that frame of mind, it keeps you young.

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