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“I drink a lot of water and a lot of wine. I'm a wine drinker. Red wine, preferably.”
“Do you know what they say about big hands? Big gloves!”
“I do like rude jokes. They're men jokes.”
“I've been to New Zealand before, many times. And of course it has a significance to me because I do have something that's very special in New Zealand. I have '10 Guitars,' which is a very popular song, and I understand it's like the second national anthem over there.”
“A man can be as sexy as he wants to be.”
“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 play golf and ride my motorcycle - my Harley - around the hills of California.”
“There was a time I'd do 300 shows a year.”
“There's something very special about playing Las Vegas, and I never tire of being here.”
“My family has always been important to me.”
“'Driving Home For Christmas' is just a great Christmas song because people are in their cars and driving home.”
“I am not a circus performer.”
“If you don't put out material that's going to last, you're not going to last.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“From me growing up with a large family and everybody singing around the Christmas tree, it was a wonderful, wonderful upbringing.”
“I love to smile. I love to laugh. I like to hear jokes. For instance, when I'm on the road, every night I watch 'Seinfeld.' I find it somewhere. I think it's so funny, and I watch the repeats over and over again.”
“I think prayer is one of the greatest healers around, more than medication.”
“I'm a TV buff. I watch television.”
“When the BBC approached me, it just felt right for me to be a part of an institution like Eurovision.”