"Tête à tête" - Interview with Lise Payette (1992)

[zenmeban]

Sorry for creating a topic about some interview that took place 20 years ago. (I swear I'm not working for the official website ) But I this is worth more than any "On this day.."

 

One forum member made me discover this heartbreaking interview. I had heard of it of course, but I had never seen the whole thing. It's actually one of the very few times she spoke so deeply and openly about herself as a human being. It shows the contradictions of a young girl whose life and career are going too fast and getting hard to handle. It's also the first interview in which Celine admits being in love...

 

There are 4 parts available on YouTube, so far I've translated until half of part 3.

 

Here are the YouTube links:

 

Part 1: https://www.youtube....h?v=LCxWOAMmRUE

 

Part 2: https://www.youtube....h?v=orsFTU283RE

 

Part 3: https://www.youtube....h?v=sPlt4mqASTI

 

Part 4: https://www.youtube....h?v=n4-2d-0ZSDU

 

It seems that a Part 5 is missing because the interviews goes on after the end of Part 4.

 

 

Here is what I've translated so far:

 

Part 1:

 

 

Lise Payette: You may be wondering why I felt the urge to do this job again, come back in front of cameras, and meet again famous guests. Well, it's for the need for truth, to know what people are made of, what they like or hate in life, sometimes to see behind the mask, but without pushing anyone. Taking the time to discover people, their tastes, their friendships, their urges, their desires. And tonight, I've invited someone that I'm looking forward to knowing more about, someone that you probably know. Well, we think we know her... For you, I've invited Celine Dion.

 

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Celine: Well, I'm a 24 year old girl, who's living incredible things of course, but sometimes I even feel like I'm experiencing too much. I'm a bit lost actually. So it's very difficult for me to describe myself because I think I don't really know myself. Many people know me a lot, maybe even more than I know myself. But I'm living incredible thing, I'm a happy girl. Happy... but I am quite afraid of solitude. I feel a bit lonely sometimes.

 

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- Lise: Celine Dion, do you sometimes look forward to being older?

 

- Celine: Yes and no. Sometimes I'd like to freeze time. I've done wonderful things up to now, I feel strong enough and I've had enough experience to keep going this way from now on. I'm happy and I could be satisfied with all this. But in the meantime, I often wish I could freeze time to prevent myself from losing the people close to me.

 

- You're talking about the fear of solitude, you're afraid of losing people...

 

- Yes, well, I know that it's gonna happen eventually.

 

- I feel like you are a tribe girl. The Dion

family is like a tribe. Well I've been raised with 13 brothers and sisters, so right from the start I grew up in a tribe, then I came to show-business, it was a bigger tribe, and then again when I'm onstage with 3.000, 5.000 or 10.000 people, I don't know it's different every night, it's like a second family that I really need. Losing all my audience all of a sudden would be disastrous, but...

 

- As if you stopped singing, for example.

 

- I don't know exactly what could happen so dramatically, but the worst thing is losing people one by one I think it's cruel.

 

- Have you lost people close to you to be talking this way? Or is it just the apprehension?

 

- It... hasn't happened yet.

 

- But you've feared it.

 

- I am still fearing it. Because I know it's gonna happen, and it scares me because I'm very attached to people. It's like I am them, and losing them is just like ripping off a part me. It's like I'm the one disappearing little by little over the years, when they die.

 

- How come you feel this way? I don't know many people that would react this way, we know that losing our parents is hard, but it's the way life goes. People give way for others to grow, there's logic in all this. How come it scares you and worries you so much?

 

- Maybe because I love too much.

 

- Isn't it maybe a lack of self-confidence?

 

- I don't know, it's weird because when I'm onstage for example, that's where I feel the better...

 

- But onstage you are protected, there's a lot of people by your side.

 

- It's what I've said before, "I am them, they are me". So when they are here, I feel strong. And thinking they might be gone someday, it takes a lot of strength away from me. It destroys me.

 

- Is there a single person in the world who really know Celine Dion?

 

- ... My mother.

 

- Really?

 

- Yes.

 

- She knows everything? Even the most hidden things that you wouldn't say to anyone else?

 

- Yes, well there may be some sally details that I keep quiet but I know she's suspecting, and those are things I'm gonna tell her...

 

- Eventually, when the time comes.

 

- Yes. Absolutely.

 

- You say that you've lived extraordinary thinks, and I can only approve, you've lived pretty much a fairytale. Were you expecting something like this when you started? What did you expect?

 

- When I started thinking about singing. I didn't think of it as a plan with steps. I knew it was gonna take a lot of work. I did not achieve my dream. It's still coming true through every step I take, every single thing I do. When I started dreaming of becoming a singer, I aimed at the highest standards, and I'm not there yet, and I never will, for as long as I am part of show-business. When I actually say "I've achieved my dream", I'll be old, I won't be able to do it anymore, I'll be at the death gate, and then the last thing I'll say will be "I've achieved my dream".

 

- Generally, when we are kids, we want not only to sing, but to sing like someone in particular. Did you have someone in mind?

 

- I didn't want to be exactly like... Well, I listened a lot to Ginette Reno, I loved her tremendously, and I still do... When I started singing her songs, I had some of her intonations, but I got lucky to have my own songs at 13, because I didn't want people to say "She's trying to imitate Ginette Reno". I wanted to be myself really.

 

- You were aware of all this at 12 or 13?

 

- Yes, but I don't know why. That's what scares me. It's as if I lived things, knowing exactly what to expect, as if I had done it already.

 

- That would be sad.

 

- Yes.

 

- You're 24 but you seem to have the experience of a woman in her 40's.

 

- Sometimes I'm talking with my sisters, and I hear myself talk and I think "Enough! It's doesn't make sense , you're practically giving them advice"... They're 45 and I'm 24, it doesn't make sense. Sometimes when I talk I feel too mature.

 

- Like you know too much...

 

- ... I know too much, but I don't mean that I know everything. On the contrary, I have a lot to learn, a lot of things go through my head. I even talk about things like... For example, I say things like "Oh yes, when you givebirth it's the greatest thing..." But how can I talk about that? I've never been pregnant, I have no experience of it, even if I saw 8 of my sisters give birth, and quite a few times! I have 27 nephews and nieces so there's a lot of action! But how come I can talk about it as if it had actually happened to me? I don't know.

 

- How do you explain it? Did you have another life before?

 

- I don't know, I believe in reincarnation, I believe in previous lives. How come I feel so comfortable talking about those things? Is it that I've lived it through the others? No, it's more than that. When they tell me about something and I say "It's ok, don't worry..." It's nonsense. It's like I can really feel it. It's like inside I'm not really... It's complicated. I don't want people to think that I'm getting bigheaded...

 

- It's really not the case, is it? You do have many superstitions, so I think. You cling to small details that are important to you...

 

- I feel more and more the need to cling to superstitions, dreams or my family.

 

- Why? Is it already getting too big for you?

 

- It's just that the more wonderful things I live, the more experience I get in my life or in show-business, it's the same, the harder it's getting.

 

- What is hard?

 

- It should be the opposite. The more you achieve, the greater it becomes. But I feel it's becoming very hard to handle.

 

- Would you explain this to me? What makes it hard? Entourage? Responsibility for others? What is it?

 

- (crying) Discipline...

 

- Yes, the exigencies you have towards yourself. Because otherwise you couldn't make it. It doesn't matter if you cry, it's ok.

 

- Sorry...

 

- For what? It happens to me too, you know...

 

- But it happens too often to me! (laughs) It's becoming hard because I'm not allowed to make a single mistake.

 

- I get what you're saying, because I haven't done half what you have accomplished, and still I've found it difficult. So I can easily understand what you're telling me, that it's hard to handle, that it is demanding for you.

 

- Yes, very.

 

- And that sometimes you feel like leaving it aside like a heavy bag, and tell "That's enough, I want a normal life".

 

- What's worse is that I don't! (laughs) I don't want to quit because I think it's wonderful! It's just that I'm 24 and I can't even allow myself a single mistake.

 

- People are demanding...

 

- But even I am. I watch myself on TV and I don't like myself. What a pity!

 

- You don't forgive yourself anything?

 

- No.

 

- But you're the one who's put such a weight upon your shoulders...

 

- Yes, I know. I'm not blaming anyone. It's me. I'm becoming more and more demanding. But I want it that way. Perfection doesn't exist, but I want it. It's complicated. Excuse me for...

 

- It's fine. You're ready to pay whatever price it takes for perfection.

 

- Yes. I know I'll never get close to what I want to become. It's like I already know I can't do it, so it's a little depressing, but I'm 24 and I can go much further.

 

- You still have time...

 

- Yes.

 

- You started very early, so you still have plenty of possibilities.

 

- But the fact that I started singing at a young age, maybe it kept me from breathing normally...

 

- You never had a proper childhood. I think that we're not ready to handle this kind of job at 13...

 

- When you start at 13, 14, it's never perfect. You do a show that ends with a big standing ovation and then, you don't even dare look at yourself in a mirror, I don't know why. And then your manager comes and say "It was great, but..." There's always a but. And I want him to be like this. I, myself, never say "it's perfect". It's never perfect. But in the end, you feel it in your veins, in your heart, that you're fed up with not being perfect. When Rene comes in my dressing room, he walks in, I'm doing my makeup because I still have people to meet after, he says "The show was great, but... Be careful about... You're doing too much..." or whatever. There's always something. So I don't even look at him, I know there's gonna be a "but". I accept it, but it's very difficult.[/color]

 

 

 

Part 2:

 

 

- Lise Payette: Is there anything else you'd rather have done for a living?

 

- Celine Dion: No.

 

- You are unable to do anything else. You're on your way to the top, and no-one can stop you...

 

- No.

 

- But you know, when you're at the top, you'll be even more alone.

 

- But I think that I will have so much experience, I will have collected a part of everyone, of all the experiences that they will have shared with me, so it will give me strength to go through it.

 

- Do you get some advice?

 

- ...Oh! All the time!

 

- Too much?

 

- Maybe... Can you ever get too much advice? I don't know, it's good to be advised. But sometimes, it doesn't leave enough room for yourself. As I've mentioned before, "I am the others", it's the same thing, so there's not enough room for myself in me.

 

- What you're saying is that you're manufactured, you've been told what to do, what to think, where to go for 12years now. And in all this, you have trouble finding yourself.

 

- I don't want people to think that I'm never myself. The reason why I often cry...

 

- It's not that you're told to. It's not that at all.

 

- No. I don't want people to think that. I'm not that manufactured, I'm not a robot, and what I'm saying right now is not something my manager told me to say before the interview. It's not that. I'm told what to do and what to say before I go on stage, but once I'm performing, it's me. I forget everything else.

 

- So that's when you're really yourself.

 

- Yes. So that's why I cry, and sometimes I have troubles expressing myself. But I'd better be like this and be sincere. I think that's more important.

 

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- Lise Payette: Celine, you have a voice, not fragile, but that requires to be taken care of. That also worries you?

 

- Celine Dion: Yes, because I wouldn't like to lose my voice forever. I really love singing.

 

- Or even cancelling appearances if you're not in top shape.

 

- It happened. And it really affected me.

 

- Were you surprised? Did you think that you were not that vulnerable?

 

- I was shocked, I was so angry at myself, because I do everything I can to keep my voice in top-shape obviously. But I gain experience through the mistakes I make, without realizing it. I once lost my voice onstage. The show started. I had gone to the hospital earlier because I didn't have a voice, but they couldn't do anything. So I started the show, and... I will always remember the song, it was "D'abord c'est quoi l'amour", I was in Sherbrooke, I started singing, people knew I wasn't in top-shape. And I was ashamed to deliver this show, because I don't want people to pay $20 or $30 to come see someone who can't sing... I'm sorry but it's not ok with me.

 

- Thats what brought you to consulting doctors, looking for advice...

 

- What's worse is that I left the stage during the guitar solo, and I burst in tears, and the music kept playing. The conductor looked for me but I was gone. People started singing "D'abord c'est quoi l'amour" and my manager went onstage and explained what was happening. The worst was hearing people sing and hearing them stand up. I was so ashamed. So I went to see doctors, in New York. It was an inflammation of the vocal chords, I came very close to surgery. Then I stopped talking for 3 weeks, and it works!

 

- Does keeping quiet work only for your vocal chords, or also for anything else?

 

- I think it works for everything. In the beginning, I thought I'd never be able to stop talking. It was during the holidays. So I stopped talking for 3 weeks and those were the greatest holidays of my life.

 

- You would communicate with paper.

 

- On pieces of paper. And people left me alone! Because there's always a lot of people surrounding me...

 

- You're opening a door to me, so I'm gonna walk in... You say "People left me alone"... You said earlier that you need a lot of people around you: your family, your friends, your audience, your musicians... And then all of a sudden, you lose your voice and you enjoy being left alone. I would like to talk about your family, because you always say good things about it. There's a lot of people in your family. I know from experience that families are not always a piece of cake. Is it the same in yours?

 

- Yes, it's not easy. Of course when I do short interviews for 5 minutes, I can't talk about it. It's just like "And your family... There's no jealousy, and it's all right, everything's perfect there's a new baby coming...." You can't go into details.

 

- But Celine must be fed up with it sometimes...

 

- I feel that the bigger the family gets, the more problems there are. I personally have no problem with any of my brothers and sisters, their husbands and wives, my nephews and nieces, I swear to God, I have no preference either. But I know that there are tensions between them once in a while. Some don't speak to others. Or during the holidays, it's like "If he's here, I'm not going..." That's painful. That's what hurts the most. It destroys me.

 

- But, on the other hand, Celine, you're generous, that's been said, you offer plenty of gifts, you like that. But do you sometimes think that people are taking advantage of you?

 

- Yes, often actually.

 

- Because you have earned a lot of money, and you could settle problems with a little generosity, and you havea tendency to do so. Do people have a tendency to ask for help?

 

- When I started making money, the first thing I did was to buy a house for my parents, and I was proud of it. My parents really deserved it. In the beginning I was asked for money, like $100, then it was $1000, then it stopped. But it became "my car broke down", "my washing machine broke down", "I need that" or "My girl doesn't have boots for the winter", or I don't know what else. And of course I want to share. I don't want to be rich and keep it all for me, and say "It's mine, I worked for it so it's mine"... I really want to share,I need to. I've been given so much. My brothers and sisters, my family still gives me a lot. And when I see they're fighting, not talking to each other, it makes me really sad. So, I gave them, I wasn't able to say no. And they kept asking for big amounts of money, but I can't give away money just like that, been if I have it. They always count on me, but they also have to make do. I had to set a limit. Every time I get a phone call, it's about asking for money. I'd like people to call me just to say hello...

 

- Ask you how you are

 

- Yes, and when I can't talk, have my mother talk for me, I also have signals to communicate, like knocking on the phone. I dream of buying a big piece of land and build a residence, with personalized condos for each one of them. But I would like everyone to get along fine.

 

- But you would live somewhere else?

 

- No, I'd live with them.

 

- But with everyone getting along, that's your condition.

 

- Yes, but I don't want then to be hypocritical, and say "Oh yes, we'll get along just fine!" just because they want the condo! I want it to be sincere. I've eventually had to bring my accountants into this family thing. When they call for money, I can't say no, so now I tell them to call my accountant, and then he decides what's fair. And it really makes me sad that it has to be like that. But I have no choice. Even my mother told me something once, that affected me, she said: "They won't do to you what they've done to me".

 

- What did she mean?

 

- I don't know. I'm still trying to understand the meaning behind this, but think it's.tough.

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Part 3 (the first half, until 06'00)

 

 

- Lise Payette: Celine, is there love in your life? Besides the love of your family, is there love? Are you cherished? Are you taken care of?

 

- (smiling) Yes.

 

- Do you sometimes receive flowers for no reason, not because the show was good?

 

- No.

 

- Do you happen to eat alone, with no-one around?

 

- No.

 

- Would you like to?

 

- ... I don't know, because I'm so not used to it. If I were alone, I think I'd make myself a toast with peanut butter very quickly so I could go somewhere, because I'd be afraid of facing myself alone. I think I'm afraid of myself.

 

- What are you afraid to discover? Can you be violent?

 

- Oh no.

 

- Can you be mean?

 

- ... I don't know. I think I won't be mean in order to hurt people, I don't think I can do this. No, I don't think I'm mean.

 

- Are there people that you hate? Wholeheartedly?

 

- (laughs) There are people I'm angry at, but I don't hate them.

 

- But you have a good memory.

 

- I don't forget. I'm angry at them, whether they hurt me or someone I love, but I still love them just the same.

 

- You have conquered Quebec, it's a fact, Canada, it's going well, the USA, it's a good start, Europe too... Once you have all this in the pocket, what will be left to do? ...Do you want to get married, have children?

 

- Oh yes!

 

- A Prince on a white horse?

 

- (smiling) No, something more realistic than this. I used to wait for that, but I'm getting more and more down-to-earth.

 

- What do you expect now?

 

- Someone to communicate with eye-contact, no words needed. Someone like that. I think that when I get married, I'll start discovering myself.

 

- Will it be because you'll see yourself through the eyes of someone else?

 

- Maybe. If one day I have the chance of having children, we will share that.

 

- How will you be know for sure that someone loves you for who you are, and not for what you do?

 

- (crying) ... Because I think I've already found him... It's a secret I can't wait to share.

 

- It's hard for you to live with this secret.

 

- Yes.

 

- You'd like everyone to know.

 

- Yes.

 

- Can you tell us?

 

- No...

 

- It's contradictory. Is it just not possible?

 

- Maybe on the next interview...

 

- It's a date?

 

- I'd like it.

 

- From now on, you'll tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

 

- Ooh... Here we go again... Show-business is tough! (laughing) ...Probably.

 

- You'll be able to assume it then.

 

- You know, when you're in love, you can't wait to shout it from the rooftops. It's hard to keep it for yourself...

 

- But why do you have to keep it? For the career?

 

- Yes.

 

- Only for the carrier...

 

- And because that's all I have.

 

- So you have to preserve it.

 

- Yes.

 

- I will remain the woman who made Celine Dion cry...

 

- Oh it's incredible!

 

- But I feel like it does you good.

 

- Yes, it's a therapy. Every time, it's always the same interviews, I say "my album is out on October 29th" or"I'm doing a show on 23rd and 24th", so being able to... I'm discovering myself too.

 

- When we talk about it...

 

- Yes. And those tears are the result of accumulation, so I think it's important.

 

- It's all that you've been keeping inside.

 

- Yes. I know Rene's gonna say "You cried too much".

 

- Well, I don't have to worry, if I'm sure that it's doing you good, and that it's not torture.

 

- No, I'm sorry... It does good, good good good good! It takes many tissues, but it does good!

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I did my best, as usual, but there may be some grammatical errors and typos.

[drove all night]

YOU ROCK!!!

 

THANK YOU AGAIN FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART FOR TRANSLATING!!!!

 

An addition to all who haven't noticed: 15 years after that interview Lise Payette wrote "Je cherche l'ombre" for Celine's "D'Elles"-album:

 

(> starts at 4:30) And while listening to Celine's recording of her song, finally Celine brought Lise Payette to tears too! Edited October 21, 2012 at 07:49 AM by drove all night

[zenmeban]

An addition to all who haven't noticed: 15 years after that interview Lise Payette wrote "Je cherche l'ombre" for Celine's "D'Elles"-album

 

Je cherche l'ombre (I'm looking for the shadow)

 

 

I'm looking for the shadow

To dance with you

My love

To those ancient melodies

That come back to mind

When the sun is fading

And the night is coming

 

I'm looking for the shadow

To take shelter with you

My love

To discover your body

Away from the light

And to love you still

Like a stranger

 

I'm looking for the shadow

To extinguish the fire

My love

That's consuming my soul

And burning through my veins

With that vile desire

That's raging inside of me

 

I'm looking for the shadow

To shed tears with you

My love

Over that life so short

That's slipping through our fingers

And eating up the days

Taking me away from you

 

I'm looking for the shadow

 

I'm looking for the shadow

Like we're looking for a friend

My love

Who can hold our hand

Without tears, without sorrow

And lead us to another place

To hide our happiness

 

To hide our happiness

 

I'm looking for the shadow

I'm looking for the shadow

 

I'm looking for the shadow

[Angel2006]

OMG!! Thank you so much for translating that interview!! I have always wanted to know what it was about. Celine was so open and honest. I miss the days when people gave real interviews like this.

 

It made me want to cry reading it. I didn't know about her family issues. I hope things are better now. It's also sad that she felt and probably still feels that she has to be perfect all the time.

 

I know that is what a person in the spot light has to face, but i think it's not fair to put that much pressure on a person. Just to think that Celine had to hide the true love of her life in her heart for 5 or 6 years, just to be perfect for the public.

 

That must have been such a sad time in Celine's life, when it was supposed to be a happy one. I just hate that Celine had to go through that. I could just feel her pain, so open and raw in this interview.

 

I'm just glad everything worked out and she got her fairytale wedding in the end and now Celine and Rene have 3 wonderful children and are going to be celebrating 18 years of marriage soon!!

[Bell]

Thank you!

[artistman2007]

Thank u so much for ur effort i really enjoyed it👏😊

[Lian]

You are áwesome.

[zenmeban]

I'm glad you appreciate it. I wanted to translate the rest of the interview, but it's so long, I'm a little fed up... Maybe in a few days!

[DionFanAlways]

WOW POWERFUL!!! I wonder if she has settled some of these issues!

 

THANK YOU Zenmeban

Edited October 21, 2012 at 02:34 PM by DionFanAlways

[chocolatechip15]

Zenmeban, you are AMAZING!!!!! Thank you SOOOO MUCH for translating this!! I have watched this interview soo many times, trying to figure out what she was saying -- what an incredible insight this is into a very vulnerable 24 year old Celine.

 

I've read that Rene was in the control room during this interview -- watching the interview, and crying himself. I've always thought he was crying during the part when Celine was talking about how she wanted to reveal her love for him but couldn't --- but I think now that perhaps it was also when Celine talks about the terrible pressure of feeling like she can't make a single mistake -- Celine says it's she herself who makes her feel that way, but I would imagine that Rene, watching that, would probably have felt responsible too.

[chocolatechip15]

Also, this was probably not long after Rene's heart attack in 1992, and just a couple of years after her mother had quadruple bypass surgery -- maybe this is why she was particularly afraid of losing them at that point.

[zenmeban]

Zenmeban, you are AMAZING!!!!! Thank you SOOOO MUCH for translating this!! I have watched this interview soo many times, trying to figure out what she was saying -- what an incredible insight this is into a very vulnerable 24 year old Celine.

 

I've read that Rene was in the control room during this interview -- watching the interview, and crying himself. I've always thought he was crying during the part when Celine was talking about how she wanted to reveal her love for him but couldn't --- but I think now that perhaps it was also when Celine talks about the terrible pressure of feeling like she can't make a single mistake -- Celine says it's she herself who makes her feel that way, but I would imagine that Rene, watching that, would probably have felt responsible too.

 

On several occasions, she glances at someone on her left, it's obvious that it's him...

[drove all night]

For me a similar open moment was the recording of "My Love" and the live performances of that song.

 

Recording session:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n1isksdLgE

 

at Oprah ... breaks my heart, every time I see it!!!

 

Live in Boston ("... it's probably gonna be as hard to sing it live than in the recording studio ....")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsQ8FGGNDq8

[zuv]

"Y feront pas avec toi, ce qui ont fait avec moi"

Ouch... I still can't believe she said that. She quoted her mom. basically her mom meant: They (brothers and sisters) wont take advantage of you like they took advantage of me.

 

I bet her entire family was pissed at her after the interview, including her mom.... She never been so open in an interview after this one.

[DionFanAlways]

"Y feront pas avec toi, ce qui ont fait avec moi"

Ouch... I still can't believe she said that. She quoted her mom. basically her mom meant: They (brothers and sisters) wont take advantage of you like they took advantage of me.

 

I bet her entire family was pissed at her after the interview, including her mom.... She never been so open in an interview after this one.

Yes I was thinking the same thing. Yes to both of your statements.

[takeachance]

Wow, thank you so much for translating, I always wanted to know what she was saying in that interview.

[Helen1981]

Thank you so much for translating.

She was so open and honest.

I enjoyed watching it but it was also very hard to see she was struggling.

My admiration for this woman is still growing, even after 17 years of being a fan.

[Bell]

I was not able to comment right after I read it... I needed time to think about it. Now I am almost the same age Celine was then and I feel and think almost the same way she did at that age... I admit it scares me a little. I never expected to find such a similarity.

[Angel2006]

YOU ROCK!!!

 

THANK YOU AGAIN FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART FOR TRANSLATING!!!!

 

An addition to all who haven't noticed: 15 years after that interview Lise Payette wrote "Je cherche l'ombre" for Celine's "D'Elles"-album:

 

(> starts at 4:30) And while listening to Celine's recording of her song, finally Celine brought Lise Payette to tears too!

 

 

 

Wow. I did not know that was the same lady that wrote that song!

 

Thank you very much for the info! I think that is so interesting. Lisa Payette must have had a big effect on Celine in that interview to work with her many years later like that.

 

Does anyone know the english translation of that song? I'm really curious to know what the words mean now!

[zenmeban]

Wow. I did not know that was the same lady that wrote that song!

 

Thank you very much for the info! I think that is so interesting. Lisa Payette must have had a big effect on Celine in that interview to work with her many years later like that.

 

Does anyone know the english translation of that song? I'm really curious to know what the words mean now!

 

The translation I made is right under the message you quote

[celinefan1991]

Zenmaben, thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!

It's crazy how much information you miss out on her if you can't understand French. This is so nice of you, to translate such a long interview like this. So much work. Just thank you again!