Revealing Interview on FAZ

[Koolan]

She answers a lot of questions we wanted to ask her for years on the long interview (in German) below.

 

http://www.faz.net/a...e-12623771.html

[zuv]

From Google Translate

 

LOL just finished reading and translation is sooooo bad haha

 

Ms. Dion, you depends on your "Titanic" hit " My Heart Will Go On " is actually sometimes even to the neck out ?

 

Sometimes , I admit . But my audience makes me forget that I have sung it already feels three billion times . Many people hear the song live for the first time when they come to my show, and I can feel her love that. Hardly goes on the curtain and the first notes are heard, comes a loud " Whoo - hoo " from the stands. It's contagious.

 

Céline Dion is now commercially nor as relevant as 1997, when the "Titanic " song came out ?

 

I do not know. How many times have I heard that I should sing other things and adjust myself to what is currently in demand ? And how many people have turned up on the ballads nose? But you're now even know who you are. You can not just say that in three years I will for country singer , and in ten years I 'm rock and roll. Maybe you can take a trip into a different genre , but you can not completely transform you . You can specify whether there is a place for you in the industry now or not only your best.

 

Will there be room for this new album ' Loved Me Back To Life ", which at first November appears ?

 

I can say that I 've given the album the best I can offer today - regardless of how commercial it is. Of course , I hope that it works. But I know I can not please everyone .

 

This fall there are a plethora of new albums by younger female superstars , Lady Gaga over Katy Perry and Britney Spears. Do you care to pass next ?

 

So I do not see that. First of all, for me , the situation is quite different. I 'm for the first time in six years with an English album out , the other girls were much more active in the meantime . And if you just start to think about having to compete with all the others , not because it comes out again. I can see myself in competition with myself

 

Would it be bad if the new album is not a success in the sales charts ?

 

I never look at the charts . Do the people of my record company and my husband René . The look at the numbers and on the money. I look into the faces of the fans. As long as the come to my shows and as long as they sing , laugh and dance , I know that I am still in demand.

 

You will really throw a glance at the charts when your album comes out ?

 

No, the charts do not interest me . I do not even hear the music from the charts.

Celine Dion - Concert at the Commerzbank Arena in Frankfurt © Kaufhold , Marcus

 

Celine Dion at a concert in Frankfurt

 

Many of your songs are about broken heart. You have often said that Rene was the only man in your life. Do you find you just can credibly sing about heartache such as Adele ?

 

I wish I could do that, and I wish I was Adele , but I 'm not even now . I am extremely happy in my life , and my songs I just borrow from other stories of .

 

On your new album there is obviously also songs that you can relate to , such as " At Seventeen " about the existence of a youthful wallflower . You said you were not a teenager pretty and not beautiful. Do you find yourself beautiful today ?

 

Oh yes ! I feel very good. I 've developed . What is not always perfect, whether it is now the nose or chin , has no longer a priority for me.

 

However, should come a day when you look in the mirror and do not find them beautiful , you would help out with operations ?

 

No . Although I 've often thought about certain things.

 

How about ?

 

Alas, for example how to fill this or that fold. And I would very much like a smaller nose or a less pointy chin. But everyone has but something wrong with themselves . I have said before not too long times , "Why can I not just let give a little Botox ? " But that's not for me as a singer because Botox paralyzes the muscles. If you were to go with the syringe just a bit too deep, it might catch my vocal cords .

 

You write your songs do not even have done it but for other artists. Would not it irritate you to record an album with own songs ?

 

No, I do not have the ambition . Sometimes I get ideas. But when I have the melody and maybe a third of the text , I always hear in the spirit , as it sings someone else. So I submit this song . Besides, if you have such great songwriters like me, you have to not ask the question: " Should I maybe even compose a song "

 

But it may well be snobs who say someone is not a real musician if he does not write their own songs or play an instrument. Feel yourself as a complete artist ?

 

I understand the objection . And I admit that I would like some things can . Read music or play the piano , for example.

Celine Dion © AP

 

The Canadian singer during an appearance in the home

 

Celine Dion can not read music ?

 

No, I never learned , unfortunately.

 

Do you want to make up for that?

 

No, I 've decided that there are more important things for me. Above all, enjoy being a mother and raising my children .

 

You have twins who are almost three years old, and a twelve-year -old son. What music do you listen because elder ?

 

Eminem. Nothing from me. Or at most secretly , because he was too proud to say: " . I like your songs , Mama," I am a mother and therefore not cool.

 

What would you think if he once even want to show business ?

 

That would be perfectly fine , I would support him.

 

What would you say if he opens up , he wants to marry a 26 year old woman - as you yourself have married the 26 year older René ?

 

Okay . I was not exactly in the best position to stop him . But they would have to convince me that she has good intentions.

 

Miley Cyrus makes her young colleague at the moment with bare skin and shock factor in their performances for vertebrae. What do you say to an established artist ?

 

This of course is calculus , and I 'm glad I do not have to do that. Can you imagine, I would have to compete with that? There would me the best song in the world no longer help . For some young colleagues just the self- extraction is a way to express themselves.

 

Find the deplorable ?

 

I'm doing anyone a reproach . People like Miley Cyrus do not mean evil. But they find they have to go so far as to feel something and to get a kick . The company drives them . What used to be offensive , it is not today . The thresholds decrease. What happens with Miley Cyrus, is quite obvious : She is tired of being a child star , and she no longer wants to leave by their parents tell them what they should do. She says: " This is my life , and this is my skin , and I'll show you. " She's so obviously a lot of fun . I hope that in the future they still have and that there are not any collapse.

 

They seem to have never had much left for the wilder side of show business , whether sex or drugs . How can it in this industry at all to avoid being drawn there?

 

Easy. You say: " I ​​thank you a thousand times for the invitation to your party , but unfortunately I can not come. " That does not mean that you can never go to a party , but you must be surrounded by the right people . Because at every party there is alcohol and drugs, and everyone says to you " Oh , you're the best of the best " , and everyone says yes to everything you want. The show business is a business of yes-men . It is a very dangerous industry, and in this case I never wanted to fall . That's why I overprotected myself.

 

You have never taken drugs?

 

No, not once

26345534 © AFP

 

Celine Dion in concert

 

What is the wildest thing you have ever done?

 

Hm .. Maybe it was the evening in Amsterdam, which was already in the nineties . I went dancing with my musicians after a gig , and I had some double tequilas . And I was not used to drinking . Anyway, I was not aware that the next day I had a show. " All By Myself " was really hard to sing .

 

So one night carousing in Amsterdam was the wildest experience of your life?

 

I was not even drunk that night sooo terrible because I've danced a lot . I just never had a wild life . Even if people do not want to stop looking at me in a dark spot .

 

Do you worry that you no longer meet the high notes of a day like today ?

 

I will definitely not even meet . When I was twenty years old, I have sung differently than with 14 And today it's different again with 45 and 60 it will be different again. It's nothing bad . I see it this way : The voice develops over the years, more like fine wine .

 

How long do you see yourself still in show business ?

 

I do not know, but it will certainly come once a point where I say : It gives me no more kick . And if I do not have this kick, then it is time to stop .

 

So you do not belong to the artists who take the stage as the air we breathe?

 

No, I do not need the stage, in order to breathe . I need my Happiness, my stability , my family . I can breathe much better at home than on stage. On stage I am sometimes a bit of panic.

 

Can you imagine to once again sing for a smaller audience than when you show in Las Vegas?

 

In any case , I think about it even after very much . I would love to be "unplugged " concerts in a more intimate atmosphere.

 

Sing in the shower at home ?

 

And as I sing all kinds . Adele , for example , or songs from children's programs on television. Rarely my own stuff .

 

Why do not you tweet ?

 

No time . What should I write? "I 'm with my bodyguard in his car , and we are just at a gas station ?"

 

Why? That's what many other stars also .

 

But I do not . That makes me then just something special.

Edited October 22, 2013 at 01:50 AM by zuv

[quaizee]

Finally she said something about unppluged concerts! That's awesome, not just a dream now

 

Ps. somebody needs to explain her that twitter It's not just to expose her personal life but to post news about her career...

 

I love Mrs. Céline "Humble" Dion

Edited October 22, 2013 at 01:46 AM by quaizee

[Katie]

From Google Translate

 

LOL just finished reading and translation is sooooo bad haha

 

Ms. Dion, you depends on your "Titanic" hit " My Heart Will Go On " is actually sometimes even to the neck out ?

 

Sometimes , I admit . But my audience makes me forget that I have sung it already feels three billion times . Many people hear the song live for the first time when they come to my show, and I can feel her love that. Hardly goes on the curtain and the first notes are heard, comes a loud " Whoo - hoo " from the stands. It's contagious.

 

Céline Dion is now commercially nor as relevant as 1997, when the "Titanic " song came out ?

 

I do not know. How many times have I heard that I should sing other things and adjust myself to what is currently in demand ? And how many people have turned up on the ballads nose? But you're now even know who you are. You can not just say that in three years I will for country singer , and in ten years I 'm rock and roll. Maybe you can take a trip into a different genre , but you can not completely transform you . You can specify whether there is a place for you in the industry now or not only your best.

 

Will there be room for this new album ' Loved Me Back To Life ", which at first November appears ?

 

I can say that I 've given the album the best I can offer today - regardless of how commercial it is. Of course , I hope that it works. But I know I can not please everyone .

 

This fall there are a plethora of new albums by younger female superstars , Lady Gaga over Katy Perry and Britney Spears. Do you care to pass next ?

 

So I do not see that. First of all, for me , the situation is quite different. I 'm for the first time in six years with an English album out , the other girls were much more active in the meantime . And if you just start to think about having to compete with all the others , not because it comes out again. I can see myself in competition with myself

 

Would it be bad if the new album is not a success in the sales charts ?

 

I never look at the charts . Do the people of my record company and my husband René . The look at the numbers and on the money. I look into the faces of the fans. As long as the come to my shows and as long as they sing , laugh and dance , I know that I am still in demand.

 

You will really throw a glance at the charts when your album comes out ?

 

No, the charts do not interest me . I do not even hear the music from the charts.

Celine Dion - Concert at the Commerzbank Arena in Frankfurt © Kaufhold , Marcus

 

Celine Dion at a concert in Frankfurt

 

Many of your songs are about broken heart. You have often said that Rene was the only man in your life. Do you find you just can credibly sing about heartache such as Adele ?

 

I wish I could do that, and I wish I was Adele , but I 'm not even now . I am extremely happy in my life , and my songs I just borrow from other stories of .

 

On your new album there is obviously also songs that you can relate to , such as " At Seventeen " about the existence of a youthful wallflower . You said you were not a teenager pretty and not beautiful. Do you find yourself beautiful today ?

 

Oh yes ! I feel very good. I 've developed . What is not always perfect, whether it is now the nose or chin , has no longer a priority for me.

 

However, should come a day when you look in the mirror and do not find them beautiful , you would help out with operations ?

 

No . Although I 've often thought about certain things.

 

How about ?

 

Alas, for example how to fill this or that fold. And I would very much like a smaller nose or a less pointy chin. But everyone has but something wrong with themselves . I have said before not too long times , "Why can I not just let give a little Botox ? " But that's not for me as a singer because Botox paralyzes the muscles. If you were to go with the syringe just a bit too deep, it might catch my vocal cords .

 

You write your songs do not even have done it but for other artists. Would not it irritate you to record an album with own songs ?

 

No, I do not have the ambition . Sometimes I get ideas. But when I have the melody and maybe a third of the text , I always hear in the spirit , as it sings someone else. So I submit this song . Besides, if you have such great songwriters like me, you have to not ask the question: " Should I maybe even compose a song "

 

But it may well be snobs who say someone is not a real musician if he does not write their own songs or play an instrument. Feel yourself as a complete artist ?

 

I understand the objection . And I admit that I would like some things can . Read music or play the piano , for example.

Celine Dion © AP

 

The Canadian singer during an appearance in the home

 

Celine Dion can not read music ?

 

No, I never learned , unfortunately.

 

Do you want to make up for that?

 

No, I 've decided that there are more important things for me. Above all, enjoy being a mother and raising my children .

 

You have twins who are almost three years old, and a twelve-year -old son. What music do you listen because elder ?

 

Eminem. Nothing from me. Or at most secretly , because he was too proud to say: " . I like your songs , Mama," I am a mother and therefore not cool.

 

What would you think if he once even want to show business ?

 

That would be perfectly fine , I would support him.

 

What would you say if he opens up , he wants to marry a 26 year old woman - as you yourself have married the 26 year older René ?

 

Okay . I was not exactly in the best position to stop him . But they would have to convince me that she has good intentions.

 

Miley Cyrus makes her young colleague at the moment with bare skin and shock factor in their performances for vertebrae. What do you say to an established artist ?

 

This of course is calculus , and I 'm glad I do not have to do that. Can you imagine, I would have to compete with that? There would me the best song in the world no longer help . For some young colleagues just the self- extraction is a way to express themselves.

 

Find the deplorable ?

 

I'm doing anyone a reproach . People like Miley Cyrus do not mean evil. But they find they have to go so far as to feel something and to get a kick . The company drives them . What used to be offensive , it is not today . The thresholds decrease. What happens with Miley Cyrus, is quite obvious : She is tired of being a child star , and she no longer wants to leave by their parents tell them what they should do. She says: " This is my life , and this is my skin , and I'll show you. " She's so obviously a lot of fun . I hope that in the future they still have and that there are not any collapse.

 

They seem to have never had much left for the wilder side of show business , whether sex or drugs . How can it in this industry at all to avoid being drawn there?

 

Easy. You say: " I ​​thank you a thousand times for the invitation to your party , but unfortunately I can not come. " That does not mean that you can never go to a party , but you must be surrounded by the right people . Because at every party there is alcohol and drugs, and everyone says to you " Oh , you're the best of the best " , and everyone says yes to everything you want. The show business is a business of yes-men . It is a very dangerous industry, and in this case I never wanted to fall . That's why I overprotected myself.

 

You have never taken drugs?

 

No, not once

26345534 © AFP

 

Celine Dion in concert

 

What is the wildest thing you have ever done?

 

Hm .. Maybe it was the evening in Amsterdam, which was already in the nineties . I went dancing with my musicians after a gig , and I had some double tequilas . And I was not used to drinking . Anyway, I was not aware that the next day I had a show. " All By Myself " was really hard to sing .

 

So one night carousing in Amsterdam was the wildest experience of your life?

 

I was not even drunk that night sooo terrible because I've danced a lot . I just never had a wild life . Even if people do not want to stop looking at me in a dark spot .

 

Do you worry that you no longer meet the high notes of a day like today ?

 

I will definitely not even meet . When I was twenty years old, I have sung differently than with 14 And today it's different again with 45 and 60 it will be different again. It's nothing bad . I see it this way : The voice develops over the years, more like fine wine .

 

How long do you see yourself still in show business ?

 

I do not know, but it will certainly come once a point where I say : It gives me no more kick . And if I do not have this kick, then it is time to stop .

 

So you do not belong to the artists who take the stage as the air we breathe?

 

No, I do not need the stage, in order to breathe . I need my Happiness, my stability , my family . I can breathe much better at home than on stage. On stage I am sometimes a bit of panic.

 

Can you imagine to once again sing for a smaller audience than when you show in Las Vegas?

 

In any case , I think about it even after very much . I would love to be "unplugged " concerts in a more intimate atmosphere.

 

Sing in the shower at home ?

 

And as I sing all kinds . Adele , for example , or songs from children's programs on television. Rarely my own stuff .

 

Why do not you tweet ?

 

No time . What should I write? "I 'm with my bodyguard in his car , and we are just at a gas station ?"

 

Why? That's what many other stars also .

 

But I do not . That makes me then just something special.

 

 

Thanks for the translation

[MTJ]

"@gasstation w/#bodyguard. LOL"

[Katie]

Why? That's what many other stars also .

 

But I do not . That makes me then just something special.

 

Love this!

[Koolan]

We can now safely say she doesn't use botox.

[DionFanAlways]

"@gasstation w/#bodyguard. LOL"

I know too funny!

[DionFanAlways]

Why? That's what many other stars also .

 

But I do not . That makes me then just something special.

 

Love this!

[Katie]

I love Mrs. Céline "Humble" Dion

 

 

With a carreer like hers, she can sometimes offers herself the right to "not being humble" I guess...

[DionFanAlways]

I have a feeling that every interviewer asked her about Miley Cyrus during those interviews.....

[DionFanAlways]

What is the wildest thing you have ever done?

Hm .. Maybe it was the evening in Amsterdam, which was already in the nineties . I went dancing with my musicians after a gig , and I had some double tequilas . And I was not used to drinking . Anyway, I was not aware that the next day I had a show. " All By Myself " was really hard to sing .

 

I remember reading about the drinking part in her book. The ABM part is just funny

Edited October 22, 2013 at 02:13 AM by DionFanAlways

[Katie]

What is the wildest thing you have ever done?

 

Hm .. Maybe it was the evening in Amsterdam, which was already in the nineties . I went dancing with my musicians after a gig , and I had some double tequilas . And I was not used to drinking . Anyway, I was not aware that the next day I had a show. " All By Myself " was really hard to sing

 

6 years ago, an article talking about this story was more referring that Celine just smoke a bit of wheat in Amsterdam...

[DionFanAlways]

^She forgets that part of Amsterdam

[Cuquito]

FACT: Celine is completely happy.

 

FACT: Guys do not stress anymore about anything. Just don't worry and be happy too.

[marc-02]

The bit with her and her bodyguard at the gas station was just too funny! Haha...

[Prima_Donna1]

Thanks for the translation. It was good article. Something about the music at least.

[littleames]

Lol yea she forgot about that puff puff she took!

 

‘The only time I did one puff was in Holland, where it’s legal. And I went to a cafeteria with some girls, with the little boats and the canals and we stopped and I tried.’

But the 39-year-old insists the substance had no effect on her: ‘Nothing. No. But I didn’t choke. I took one puff and I said, ‘Okay, nothing happened!’ It was funny.

‘It was, for us, like cheating. ‘Oooh!’ You know, there might be paparazzi!”

 

Y'all know she didn't inhale lol!

 

Anyways, I loved tha part about the Bodyguard. Sometimes I catch my self when tweeting and I'm like "This is stupid..why would I even put that" lol.

[Prima_Donna1]

Lol yea she forgot about that puff puff she took!

 

‘The only time I did one puff was in Holland, where it’s legal. And I went to a cafeteria with some girls, with the little boats and the canals and we stopped and I tried.’

But the 39-year-old insists the substance had no effect on her: ‘Nothing. No. But I didn’t choke. I took one puff and I said, ‘Okay, nothing happened!’ It was funny.

‘It was, for us, like cheating. ‘Oooh!’ You know, there might be paparazzi!”

 

Y'all know she didn't inhale lol!

 

Anyways, I loved tha part about the Bodyguard. Sometimes I catch my self when tweeting and I'm like "This is stupid..why would I even put that" lol.

She smoked weed? Oh crap she ain't all that innocent.

[littleames]

She smoked weed? Oh crap she ain't all that innocent.

 

That's what that interview stated! I would have killed to have seen her with a joint in her hand!

Haha I remember my first time. Lawd I got soooooo high I don't even remember getting home lol!

[CelinesDIVO5]

I've never smoked anything in my life...27 years old here.

[QueenCeline87]

Love this interview!!

And I love the tweeting answer!! Lol

[browseceline]

BEST INTERVIEW EVER!!!!!!!!! why could other interviewers never ask such good questions? Anyway, one thing, why opening a twitter account when you are planning not to use it anyway? I understand she thinks it is stupid to share everything about her private life on twitter. But that is of course too much, but just share some music information now and then, to keep the fans interested, is not so bad in my opinion. Edited October 22, 2013 at 07:55 AM by browseceline

[comingback]

http://www.faz.net/a...e-12623771.html

Great interview!

[Davey84]

awseome interview!!! I loved it!!! Finally some interesting questions and interesting answers!! Not overloaded with kiddies talk! I think this is the happiest Celine has ever been, even more so than during AND cos now there is more time to do things beside singing the Colloseum!

 

Celine come back to Holland!! Let me explore that wild side of you some more

[JasonFromTheMoon]

The only thing I don't like is that, according to what she often says, the music is not really a part of herself but rather just her regular job for living. It's controversial, because she's pouring her heart in her songs and then the cold water slap comes when she kind of says "No I'm just acting there".

 

But I love her anyway.

[DionFanAlways]

"The voice develops over the years, more like fine wine ." Love this statement. How true!

[Boy]

I've never smoked anything in my life...27 years old here.

 

Me neither, I've never tried to smoke anything but cigarettes. And I'm 25 But i definitely had some double tequilas and i believe Celine should've sung ABM right after the shots, cuz once u take a shot - singing becomes much easier

 

The interview is really great, finally we get interesting material

[LuisMa]

I've never smoked anything in my life...27 years old here.

 

I wish I could say the same.

 

Thank you for the cool interview.

[luciusbright]

the interview is good! so authentic, this is a real Celine!