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I guess it all depends on your nature.
Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But
when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or
nothing for me.
After the show, I was
so impressed. I wanted to go backstage, and I wanted to look into the
eyes of every performer. There was 50, 60, 70 performers, and I wanted
to talk to them. Franco Dragone, who put this whole show togethe,
apparently was touched by the fact that I went backstage.
After what happened to Rene and after what happened
on the 11th in New York, it gives us another perspective. You have to
balance things. We've stopped planning too much in advance.
All my life I said I feel different types of music,
but I don't feel like recording a rap album tomorrow morning. Here I am,
singing a rap song, and I'm enjoying it.
As a Canadian, or as an American, or as whatever
nationality you are, I don't think it has anything to do with where
you're from. It's a responsibility of a human being to get together and
be strong and tall and stand up and say, It's going to be OK.
As long as my fans enjoy my music and I'm happy in
myself, my life and my music, that's all the truly concerns me.
At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to
other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.
Becoming a mother makes you a grown-up. You're all
they have. They trust you, they need you. That's all they want. They
want to be loved, protected and supported.
Before appearances I only can eat a little. And after
a show I don't like to fill my stomach that much, because it's unhealthy
to eat something to late hour.
Before Rene had chemotherapy, we decided to put some
sperm in the bank and go for some fertility treatments.
But a new day has also come in the lives of other
people because something bad has happened, because we've lost lives,
because there's a scar on our world now.
Caesar's Palace were interested in building a
4,000-seater Coliseum for us. Cirque du Soleil's Franco Dragone was
interested in working with us. Things turned out great.
Cancer gave us another way to look at each other. We
not only loved each other, we needed each other. I needed to do this for
him, and he needed me.
Cancer was a word which did not belong to our
vocabulary up to this day. But if this illness hits someone you love,
there's only one thing: You must fight against it, otherwise you will be
destroyed by that, what life hits you over the head.
Children know the secrets of life. To be around
children makes you discover the child that you are inside. I approach my
whole life differently now. Nothing really has the same meaning anymore.
Dove soap, my dermatologist recommended it. It makes
the hardest water soft and it's available all over the world. Supplies
are always guaranteed.
Even today I'm afraid of losing me, I'm afraid of
losing him. Every day becomes a very special day now, and we got to be
thankful for that.
Every song can now become a visual experience, which
I think puts it all on a higher scale. And it will be fun for me,
something new.
Every song will be a video. It's going to be very
spectacular.
Everything that I decide to do means something,
otherwise I don't do them.
For us, like every parent, he's the most intelligent,
he's the most beautiful, he's the most prettiest. You think the same of
your children. I think the same of mine. I think that it's normal.
Fruits are snacks, which are rich in vitamins and
which can be eat the whole day.
Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's
about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.
He cannot be a normal baby for us, because he's not.
How come it's so easy to send planes in another
country to kill everyone in a second, to destroy lives? We need to be
there right now to rescue the rest of the people.
I always can say: I eat normal, even a lot.
Ice-cream, cake, sandwiches-I love food!
I always put on makeup at home, because I think I'm
looking boring without it.
I am different. When somebody so close to you gets
sick, and when you give life also, it changes you for the rest of your
life.
I am extremely disciplined. I've already learned it
when I was a little girl. In a household with 14 children it couldn't
other be done.
I am the youngest of 14 children, so I rarely got a
chance to speak. If I have an opportunity for talking, I talk.
I can hardly believe my luck. It's a ridiculously
insane amount of money, but then I'm not going to say no to this sort of
offer. If I spend three years of my life in Las-Vegas earning this
money, then I'll know I'll never have to work again. That's a wonderful
feeling.
I control myself at the table and stop eating when
I'm full.
I didn't feel the pressure to try and outdo anything.
I proved myself before, so now I can enjoy.
I didn't have holiday for nearly 15 years, that will
be made up for now-without bodyguards.
I didn't miss performing, I did not miss a second of
it. Because I didn't really left it completely.
I didn't want a nurse. I wanted to do it myself, and
every night we went into the bathroom. I gave myself those shots, pffff,
right into the muscle. I fed the baby every night, and I think he heard
me.
I don't have something against small cosmetical
operations.
I don't listen to my own music at home.
I don't want to go on tour and sing one song into the
another and have the blue lights and red lights and yellow lights-I want
to have a visual experience.
I felt very weak and small with everything that's
happened in the world... and yet I didn't want to look down and be
miserable, because we need something positive.
I gave life, and that is beautiful.
I got very busy. We love to golf together. I was
there for my husband, he was there for me. We visited friends and
family. And we got pregnant.
I had lots of dreams when I was younger: to become an
international singer, to sing in different languages, to talk in
different languages, to be in movies, to travel the world, sell a lot of
records. I've done lots of things, but they are no longer dreams.
I have a very obstinate cold, but inside this room
it's warm.
I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two
Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.
I knew I needed to take a break, to empty myself, to
fulfill myself with new things, modern things, some things to talk
about, things to sing about.
I knew I was going to come back. There was no
sadness. One emotional moment in the show for me and Rene and my family
was when we did the countdown to the year 2000.
I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary
thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you
have a baby.
I like go swimming, that good for the skin. And I
started playing golf long time ago.
I looked in the audience. There were no strangers.
Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful
picture to look at.
I love children, but now I have a child and I make a
difference in his life. We were very fortunate to have good doctors, but
sometimes you're being treated by the best people and it doesn't work.
I love it when you see which similarities my son and
I have. When I look at him it is like I look at a younger version of
mine. Imagine I get a plastic surgery, then my son and I won't be
looking similar. Terrible idea!
I might think the feet of my husband are sexy.
Sometimes I make him a pedicure. I can so that excellently.
I needed to take a long break, I needed to have a
normal life for just a little bit.
I receive about 1,000 songs a year, and I have a
great team with me selecting and hearing everything. They know me very
well.
I remember taking like a year off changing my style a
little bit because people used to see me as a little girl. If I want to
make a change, it's better if I stop a little bit, make the changes I
want, and then come back stronger.
I sang to him while I was pregnant in the shower. You
know, he got the stereo, mono, he got it all. But when I started to sing
for him when he was a couple of months old, he cries.
I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my
family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm
going.
I started working with 14 years and didn't stop since
that time. I had always a dream: I wanted to become a world-well-known
singer. That's done now.
I think I fell in love with Rene the first time I met
him, but I never let him know anything for almost 10 more years because
I never thought there would be any response. I had no idea he ever had
any feelings for me.
I think that all on me is well-proportinated.
I think that life has a secret, and children they
hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this
thing.
I think the music industry changed. Listening to some
music at home from Britney Spears and to Destiny's Child, which is a
positive and great thing, but the rap thing, I'm a little afraid of
this. I mean, I like the beat. It's good. But sometimes I have to be
careful about the lyrics.
I think we have a great album. I feel like I have
things to sing about. I definitely feel that this album took the least
of my voice, but more of my soul and even more of my heart-everything
was relaxed and soft.
I think we stopped wanting the future too much.
I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in
show business.
I was 14 years old. I was with my mother. It was my
first French TV show and very nerve-racking. I didn't really rehearse. I
did my vocal exercises, but I didn't have a lot of training.
I was looking forward to seeing my husband and having
a life and maybe trying to have a little child and have no schedule, no
training, no discipline.
I was not ready to do the big jump and come back with
a rap album, even though the music changed. I need for me to do some
ballads and romantic music, still.
I was thin my whole life and a few weeks after the
birth of Rene my weight went back to a normal level. Without any sport,
without any diet.
I went crazy about what I was going to wear, which is
ridiculous because I should be concerned about what I am going to sing!
I went to a Berlitz school for two months, every day,
nine to five. It was very intensive. I was not speaking the language
fluently; singing it was a little bit easier. But it was scary to do an
English interview. What am I going to do if I don't understand?
I will marry my husband once again. Five is our lucky
number, five years ago we were married for the first time. And then our
new life begins. Lord, it will become so beautifully boring! Super!
I will never be the same.
I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my
life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.
I wish we were all naked all of the time. I get so
sick of the way we've become obsessed with image. Who's wearing what,
why someone has their hair cut in this way, who has reinvented
themselves and why? Today everything's always about looks, good looks
and fashionable clothes.
I won't have to fly anywhere for while. I'll do my
show every night and come home to my son and my husband every evening.
That means a lot more to me than the money. Then, when it's all over, I
think I'll say goodbye to this business once again.
I'm addicted to make up. I'm buying beauty products
like wild.
I'm flattered when they take the time to impersonate
you. I think it's a good sign.
I'm going to go to New York, take the plane and never
come back. Something's going to explode over there or I don't know. And
I was going to leave my son for the first time. And then Rene tried to
calm me a little bit.
I'm here because I want to be with people. I want to
enter their lives.
I'm just starting to control my emotions when I talk
about my son.
I'm slim by nature and I have a small breast, but I
can live with that. I would never enlarge my breast.
I'm very aware that I have never been considered
trendy as an artist. I still don't look right. Truth, maybe I still
don't wear the right clothes.
I'm very happy. I love to sing. I mean, it's not a
new thing. It's part of me. I love to be here and see my friends again
and that's great.
I've always believed it's what's underneath that
counts. If we were all forced to be naked then perhaps we would start to
see that a little bit more.
I've had time to be sick for the first time in 18
years. There's been no worrying about schedules, no vocal training. I
can let myself laugh without worrying about irritating my voice, and I
can scream when I'm happy.
I've never been cool-and I don't care.
I've seen diapers. And believe me, my mother is
right. What's in the pooh-pooh is like the Bible. The truth is in there.
If I could, I would have 14 kids like my parents had.
But I think I'm a little late for that.
If people need a partner, a helping hand, to cry, to
dance, whatever it is, I want it to be like a little shoulder to lean
on. As we all know, the world is going through a lot.
If the opportunity comes to do a really great movie,
I would like that. By then, I'm almost 40 years old.
If you begin to ask: Why we, why that, everything,
then you become crazy. Don't be passive, don't give up and don't say:
Now I have this thing in me, and it will kill me.
If you don't hear from me again, you'll know I'll be
happy because I'll have my family.
If you want it so bad, it gets easier. You go to New
York for two weeks, and you relax. And you give yourself shot after shot
after shot and blood tests. The doctor every day. For some people, it
might be very hard.
In the age of 15 I recorded two German songs, I liked
it. German is like a big piece of wood for a fireplace, very strong,
very beautiful. It's super for a powerful love song.
In vitro... it's a long process, a lot of patience.
It involves a lot of shots. I'm 33 years old.
Isn't it amazing that we always have to be heroes?
Like, it's okay to say, Mommy is scared. Mommy is hurt. Mommy is tired.
It was Florida and it was Montreal. I listened to
music, I watched TV, I watched the others perform, I listened to some
other people's music, and I gave space to hear life.
It was so touching to see the two men of my life
embracing.
It was very emotional to be home and do one last
farewell show. I was going on to my new life, which was very important
for me.
It's children. It's human being. It's love. It's
making a difference in somebody's life.
It's our room, 200 shows per year, five shows a week,
and... 60 performers on stage.
It's the moment you think you can't that you realize
you can.
James Cameron didn't want to have any songs in this
movie. The composer James Horner wrote that song without him knowing. So
we did a demo, and the demo became the record. I never re-sang the song.
They built the orchestra around it. I'm glad James Cameron changed his
mind.
Look at Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas.
She's a clever girl, because like me, she knows that an older man has
time to love and nurture you.
Love is kitschy!
Maybe I've done it-for 20 years I've done it so much
that I still hear it and it still feeds me very well.
Maybe we do some intimate shows here and there,
something unplugged, something light.
Maybe we'll try for another child with more IVF.
Meal is often a ceremony at us in order to get the
right people together to a table. Otherwise I eat what does well to me.
My body is my friend.
My child changed my life totally. And I didn't have
the need to sing anymore. I didn't want to do it anymore - didn't want
to take a second away from my son. I was going to the school of life
with him every day.
My family and friends and Rene and the pregnancy
fulfilled me with so much love.
My goal is to drive my son to school every day. And
Vegas will end, he'll be 5 years old.
My husband and me retired for two years, so that
there will be less talking about us and my weight.
My husband got ill almost three years ago. He got
cancer. And he needed me more than before.
My husband Rene and I were recently out for dinner in
Berlin. Sausages with sauerkraut and such things. Yummy, but
nevertheless they laid heavily in the stomach.
My mom was 41 when I was born.
My real dream came true. We had a son.
No sophisticated time schedule anymore, that is
something marvelous. Just cooking noodles, cultivating tomatoes, playing
golf, lying in bed, eating chips with ketchup and spooning up peanut
butter directly from the glass.
Nobody said it was going to be easy. But I want to be
successful as a mother. No matter what I have to do. There's not even a
decision. I'm not even going to think about it.
Not every song is a big ballad, but every song is as
powerful.
Of course I hope the album is going to be as
successful for the record company as the one before. I'm certainly not
going to give any less; if anything, I have more to give, because I have
something new to talk about.
People used to laugh and call me vampire because I
had these big teeth like fangs.
People who do such bad things in the world-they're
probably not around kids a lot.
Rene actually has no good voice for singing, more
like a godfather in a mafia movie: low, hoarse like a rasp. But very
sexy-like his feet. Yes, sir!
Rene isn't interested in fashion. What I like he
likes, too! We don't love each other for what we are wearing.
Rene used to organize everything. But when he told me
that he needed me, I became a little bit more in charge of taking care
of the family and making sure that we stopped planning too much ahead
and don't forget today.
Rene was my manager and husband, but I felt we were
starting to lose the most important part of our relationship. Everything
was about work and my voice and we weren't allowing enough space for our
love, so we decided to take some time out.
Rene was very scared, and I saw him scared the first
time in my whole life with him. And that was good. I thought I loved him
at the max, but no. I had much more to give him - I didn't know that -
and he let me.
Shall I go on 15 years more just to find out: My
parents are dead, I have golden picture-frames, but no more friends,
whose photos I could put in? I would like to have time for my family and
above all time for my husband. Now.
Since I was a little child, my nose-I think it's too
big.
So far so good. We take it a day at a time.
Sometimes it's embarrassing for myself, when I'm
sitting in a restaurant with other people who are thinking if they
should drink either a glass of wine or a take a dessert. I take always
both. In addition to the ice cream I take a big portion of whipped
cream.
Sometimes people imitate you, and Anna Gasteyer
exaggerates my character and personality, but it's funny. I asked her to
come and be part of my show and do a number with me.
Sometimes when something like this happens to you,
you have no choice. It's something that you have to go through. Life
decided that you're going to get sick, but you still have a choice.
Speaking honestly: Rene loves me the most when I'm
wearing nothing.
The most important thing is to accept yoursel, and
that's what I have done. I am healthy, I can walk and jump around and
care about others-that's the essential part for me.
The only way to be stable is to be in one place. I'm
going to be based in Las Vegas for three years. And I'm able to give the
visual show I want for my fans. Every song will become an experience.
It's going to be 50 or 60 performers on stage.
The past three years have been so precious to me
because they've shown me how human we are and how the things we must
value aren't the money and the fame, but our health, our love and our
family.
The rumours, that say I would eat only salad and raw
vegetables-aren't true. I just eat irregular, but possibly sound.
There's a big age difference, but I think older men
have so much more to offer than young guys. They've done all their
running and sown all their wild oats.
There's been nothing but discipline, discipline,
discipline all my life.
There's people still there, waiting to be rescued,
and for me it's not acceptable. I know there's reasons for it, I'm sorry
to say, I'm being rude, but I don't want to hear those reasons.
There's something of everthing in my bathroom.
There's two people that I do love so-that I admire,
that I look up to in my life, my mom in my personal life, and Barbra in
show business. I just love her very much.
They're stealing 20 pair of jeans or they're stealing
television sets. Who cares? They're not going to go too far with it.
Maybe those people are so poor, some of the people who do that they're
so poor they've never touched anything in their lives. Let them touch
those things for once.
This is my big return, for sure. Every time I do
something, it is entirely my whole self or not at all.
Throuh my husband Rene Angelil I knew golf. For him
golf is like a religion, he plays it nearly daily. At golf you move the
whole body, namely over hours on fresh air. That's pleasant and makes
you calm.
To learn more languages, Spanish, Italian-or better,
Japanese and Chinese-they take over the world economy slowly! In
addition, German gladly.
Two years ago I saw the Cirque de Soleil. It changed
my vision of my performing. This is what I wanted for me.
Up to now I don't know my home country Canada
completely, let alone Europe. I travelled around the world, but I only
saw concert halls and luxury hotels. We want to see all, what we missed
up to now.
We are living in Florida, the whole year it's much
warm, often also sultry.
We call him Rene-Charles. I went through labor for 24
hours. And then, Rene took him in his arms.
We went through life and death in one day. I'm glad
everything happened like it did, because it gave us a chance to see what
our priorities are. Being rich and famous is a wonderful thing, but it
can't stop you from having cancer, it can't stop you from having
problems trying to conceive a child.
We were lucky that in vitro worked the first time for
us. We put three embryos in my belly and we have one that's five days
old; it's frozen and it's there waiting for us. I'm going to go get this
baby.
What I am eating I keep in me.
What I hope the most is to be more successful as a
mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most
difficult I will ever have to do.
When I first started in this business, people took
one look at me and said it wouldn't happen. They didn't even wait to
hear me sing, they judged me entirely by what I looked like, my hair, my
clothes, my face.
When I found out it was a boy, Rene started to cry.
When I started in show business, when I turned 18
years old I wanted to learn English and I wanted to sing in English.
When I was pregnant, I was holding my breath for
eight months and a week.
When I'm at our house in Florida, I sometimes only
wear a swim suit all day long. I only dresses myself chic or sexy when
I'm working or go out with my husband Rene.
When I'm dressed I feel great. I can wear everything
and never have had a problem because of the size or or a blouse that's
too tight.
When I'm in naked front of my mirror I'd like to be a
little bit more thick. I think women with curves are very beautiful. I
don't put on weight.
When it was time for me to change for the Titanic
thing, I used to come up in the middle of the stage, changing my
wardrobe, putting on my big dress for the finale.
When it was time for me to perform live, I didn't
know how I was going to present myself. I concentrated on not changing
hands with the microphone. I was going to perform on television like I
was in my living room and all those people were my brothers and sisters.
When you are a new mother, your body is-you're not in
control totally.
When you want a child and you've been trying for six
years, and this miracle baby comes, it's not hard. And every night, I
gave myself a shot. And it's big needles like this in the muscle.
When you're a singer it's not only to sing and then
we try to have a hit here, there's a responsibility of what you sing.
Some people are being influenced. You enter people's life with some
music. There intimacy. So whatever you sing you got to be careful
sometime with lyrics.
While I was pregnant, two things I know for sure. He
won't be blond and he won't have blue eyes! That's for sure. He's almost
blond and he's got the eyes of the sky.
Yes, man, I love my husband, so when it's time to
watch sports I'm right with him. I've been there for 20 years.
Yesterday, we can't do anything; tomorrow, we don't
know. Today.
You don't want to bother people. Too much is too
much. If you want to sing and be there all the time, you have to take a
break.
You know, what I want the most right now, of course,
my album, my record is fun.
You shouldn't always think about perfect breasts, a
perfect body or a perfect nose. Of course, I'm thinking, that my nose
could be thinner, my chin less peak or my belly a little more stronger
after my pregnancy. But who cares? I am what I am!
You're breast feeding every two hours. Milk is
like... end of two valves, like the milk is coming out of your breast,
which is a fantastic thing.
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