I have made a very good living, for more than 30 years, by being underestimated.

I have been underestimated for decades. I have done very well that way.

I have every reason, despite the resentment and exasperation, to be proud. I have nothing better to be proud of than being proud of German unity.

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

As a child, I personally didn't really get to know any Jews. I was eight years old when the Night of Broken Glass happened. And Ludwigshafen was purely a workers' city, so we didn't have a very big Jewish community. What I did know about the Jews, I heard from my mother. My mother was very much pro-Jewish.