“We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.”

“The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab ...”

“I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.”

“I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.”

“When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.”

“The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.”

“When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.”

“I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.”

“The optimist is a pessimist with a plan”