Ghosts exist.

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.

I don't think you should rely on medicine. I think you should rely upon herbal doctors, acupuncture, and doctors outside the medical world, with different kinds and forms of treatment.

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

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.

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

I have always looked after my little girl - my wife - and made sure she is in the safest hands possible at all times. She was always an unbelievably strong woman.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 had a mustache for 10 years.

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

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

I'm a TV buff. I watch television.

'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.

I've had more paternity suits than casual suits.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Elvis stole his sideburns from me.

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

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

I am not a circus performer.

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.

Gene Simmons and I look so much alike!

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 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.

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

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

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!

As long as I can make albums, I will.

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

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.

I still get nervous before every performance.

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

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

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

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.

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.