Nana Mouskouri

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.

Steaming maintains some of the aubergine flesh's texture, which doesn't happen if you cook it in any other way.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.