“Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where’s the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?”

Every country I’ve had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country.

I havent had a big hit record in America since 1987.

You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.

I’ve never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!

I love Tina Turner. I’m one of Tina Turner’s biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material.

As expected life isn’t that sweet at all. When I came to Tokyo I thought I could achieve anything with my own two hands. It’s not like that.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.

It would have been better if the United Nations had sent a team to Mali right away to mediate between the government and the rebels. But where is the political initiative?

I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it’s from there that all those who fought left.

The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations.

The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information.

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all.