Quotes from Engelbert Humperdinck

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 think prayer is one of the greatest healers around, more than medication.

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

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.

There are so many people getting dementia. It is like an epidemic now. It is a terrible disease because once you get it, your life changes completely.

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

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.

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

Gene Simmons and I look so much alike!

I love what I do, and I'm glad that people still love what I do. I'm booked, I come there, I do my job, and I hope they like what I bring to them.

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

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.

Do you know what they say about big hands? Big gloves!

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.

If I'm in a city I haven't been in before, I believe if I go into a church and ask a favor, it will be granted. It's part of my belief, and that's what I do.

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 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 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.

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.

There is no harm in showing your feelings. It's not unmanly.

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.