Céline Dion talks Courage, life after René Angélil and her new outlook

How's it going? I'm doing very well. How are you? Good welcome to the program. Thank you so much for doing this. Thanks for flying, come on, I mean, I would crawl. Oh, come on, come on, don't get me started. train, you would know I would just hitchhike to come here and talk to you like this, this is exciting, you've waited so long to come and talk to me, yeah, tell me about not talking, we were three weeks to get it. here you know it's been pretty good, you walked, I just want to start by backtracking a little bit and I'm going to go back to June 8, 2019, your last show in residency and in Las Vegas, and you bring it up on stage and you open the show with the power of the law because you did it every night, but the last night you did it when you came out and you knew it was going to be your last night doing this show, what did you feel at that moment?

I think, if I remember correctly, people thought it was going to be very, very emotional for me and it was going to be very difficult for me, but I knew what I was getting into probably the next day or a couple of days after that. of course, don't get me wrong when it's before I turn the page because for me I stayed, I went, I stayed so long in Las Vegas, in fact, I still live in Las Vegas, always will be and I raised my children in Las Vegas, always It will be a way of being a home for me because this is where I still live even though I am now in Montreal where my roots are and this is really my home, to make a long story short, I felt very strong when I did the last show even though that there were a lot of butterflies going on.

I didn't want to cry, which is easy for me to cry because I am very emotionally passionate and I care and love what I do and what I feel when the audience hugs me. I let myself be carried away by emotions. so I said to myself I want to have a good one like every night and especially tonight because it's my last show so let's do it like a party and I have to say I don't remember if I cried, I don't think I did if I didn't cry. I'm very proud of myself because everything I've done for so long there with my team we've achieved a lot, yeah, and I'm proud of that mm-hmm and I didn't want to. just cry just wanted to say hello last show im so happy so many people came and we're still here tonight and im about to hit the road i love that you said that when I am it's hard to I don't want to cry because I've taken a lot of both.

II because I thought I would do it because of the content of the songs, but also because you see how the public reacts to these songs, because these sounds mean a lot. of people that you know don't do them in births, deaths, birthdays and all these kinds of moments, do you take time at a concert to look around and see how those songs that you say, that's what I Actually, I don't want to interrupt you, please, it's just that you know years, year after year, more or less for 20 something years, some less, a little more, but I have been singing some of those songs, many of those songs yes.

I can rephrase that night after night and many times in interviews I've been asked, aren't you tired of singing the same songs all over the world? And sometimes I have to admit: you say it's hard, it's hard because you have to do this. song tonight like I'm singing it for the first time because the people who are in the audience tonight might be their favorite. I won't be able to sing all your favorite songs. I can't sing all my favorite songs. of the times my favorite songs that only make the charts my favorite songs are the B-sides on reel at the time remember this the records we were selling I'm familiar with is that when the curtain opens and just a fraction of for a second I think oh no, right before I think about no that song again.

I always look at that's the difference between recording in a studio that you face, the engineers don't get me wrong, I love them and that's why I work with them and choose that stone face but there's like an audience they come they're excited their shows don't even they've started they're on the edge of their seat they're crying they're laughing they're holding hands they're standing up they're dancing they're getting married You're like you don't know where to start show, there's a show before the show, so there's part of our program, so when I start the song I think he might think I don't want to sing it. it changes it automatically and it's like the first time every time, believe it or not, they make it possible, that's really beautiful, I'm glad it's true and I just said that at weddings they lose people, they're having a hard time, yeah, right?

How many people do I do it? meet before the show and say: you have changed my

life

, you have supported me in difficult times, people proposed to me at your shows. I have seen it before. Oh, people proposed to me at my show with long nails, with my face on their nails and me. I like it, are you going to marry me? Do you know what you're about to do now? I'm glad you still have a connection to it because I was wondering going in that I wasn't going to ask too much, but you're I'm getting tired of your songs, but I wonder if my heart is still with the song because it's become such a big song. for me, for millions of people around the world, but it requires a lot, especially the ending with that great modulation.

In the end I wondered how you did it night after night to feel it because I always believe you every time you sing it, so that makes sense. Thank you so much. I feel very honored and today I realize more than ever that someone, for example, Beauty and the Beast and in my heart will continue to win Oscars being part of classics is something incredible then and today it is an honor and this is something that I was and that I will stay even when I am no longer there for my children and for people to remember that while mom was part of two classics of her

life

, so now I think about this more than ever, so what led you to leave the program?

The Vegas show, first of all, I thought I was supposed to do it. my first when I started living in Las Vegas my art RC or any Charles my first son turned 18 today he turned one year and a half and we started a new day from Cirque de Soleil directed by Franco Dragone and We started that program and I thought I was going to be there for a while, but for a while I thought maybe it would be a couple of months, yeah, or maybe a couple of weeks, because I feel like you did great again.

It wasn't cool that people did residencies and then you made it cool again, well what wasn't cool to start with is that to most people I would say the industry mainly without speaking against the industry because they're here. We are here because they know that we support them and that I need them they still do and we work in partnership, yes, but they did not believe it. They said the Titanic will sink again and that Indiana will end her career there, but at some point. We said listen, we're not going to please everyone, it may be a bad idea, but people believe in it, build a Colosseum for that show, it's called a new day, yes, we believe in it, let's do it and not everyone is listened to. individuals who are thinking this is a bad idea if it is a bad idea let's get up again people make mistakes in life but if you don't take risks you will never know that we took risks people believed that we concentrated we made a new day and not only We were there for three weeks or three months or a year and a half, I was there for five years, then I kept superimposing a world tour on top of that, which lasted about a year and a half, and to sum it up, they liked one of me again and I said oh hello home. as soon as I came home as soon as yes and I spent another five years so don't let me do the math because I'm very very bad, I have to start going to school because I was on stage, that's not my job, but I've been there for a long time and what was fascinating to me is that many well-known artists came after and before the show. meeting me was an incredible honor and they were still excited about people, like when you sell tea, I'm like when there are still people you meet backstage and you're like, wow, I got good first of all.

I'm a fan of artists, that's good and I don't look like, oh, I'm Ce

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Dion because your intonation was like and there's nothing wrong with that, thank you when you said "like", but you're Ce

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Dion, okay, my name. because my name is a singer but I don't live my life like that I like to hear that although I like to hear that you're still excited to meet me because then we never do I mean they're busy I'm busy when we see each other another one, it's backstage at a show that They are about to continue and I just finished what I had to do.

Hey, by the way, good luck and, by the way, then you love yourself and I love you very much. Wow, no time, yeah, right, no selfie, no. photo without autographs for children we don't have time, so why do we go out without being together and don't get together? Unfortunately, it's lack of time, but a lot of artists came and wanted to know why, what is it like? Works? Do you like it? How do you do it? How did it work? How does it work? They were curious because they thought that traveling is wonderful but it's difficult it's difficult for everyone jet lag you move all the time the weather changes.

It means the connection with all of India above all, it is difficult, yes, it is difficult, but it is also fun because you discover different ways of living different cultures. It's wonderful to travel the world because you go to the school of life and when you go to the school of life and travel the world. world and you have a six-year-old and seven-year-old with you who is going to school with a tutor and at the same time learning what life is all about, which to me is probably more important than two plus two. equals seven that's right, I'm sure I think you could be right about yes, you have to say yes, yes, I think two plus two, thank you, we can talk about that, let's make seven, I think that's perfect, you can ask yourself a question.

Okay thank you very much. I apreciate it. I understood the question well. This is like logging into my email. Can we talk about this new album? I just listened to a bit of it and really loved it. Well, I can't say it too. a lot about it because they've asked me not to do it I want to ask you what I can say about it is that I'm very proud of it very excited I've been a part of this before having been a part of my career and choosing my songs, of course, but from A to Z since Renee isn't there, I've been with my team more than ever, some of the creativity, whether it's for the record, some ideas, good, stupid, whatever I'm not supposed to. say stupid because if my children see that stupid is not a good word, then good ideas, bad ideas and also for putting together this program to sit at a table and contribute ideas, whether they are bad or they are out there, and I think I'm Rihanna or no event like Britney Spears or I want to have something like, you know, like glitter like Jennifer Lopez or whatever, I mean all of them and I want to have something to do with, I don't know, Sam Smith or Labyrinth or Bruno Morris. or I can go on and on and on, okay, I'm a big fan of many, many artists, but they're part of this creation thing mmm no, I'm an idiot, they can't get rid of me, no, and I can hear it's for me . maybe it's because damn, you ask them well done for great music.

I mean, I hear a lot about you on the record and I didn't want to talk one bit. I know we can't talk much about it, but you know, selling the The word

courage

caught my attention, you know, it's the name of the tour, it's the name of the records, the name of the song I just heard. I want to know what that word means to you. Well, it means everyone is going through things. in life things we have to do I would say that when something bad happens to you in life you have to find a way to overcome these obstacles and find a way to find inner strength to say that is part of life this is not something that you You choose is something that life imposes on you and it is up to you to overcome these obstacles and you have the options if you are going to need help or not or how you are going to overcome this and we all have good times and bad times and we all lose people and to say that losing the father of my children my husband my manager the person I love most in the world and the person I can trust and without questioning anything since I was 12 years old Losing that person was very important for me, but it was reflected in many people with Those of us who have been around for twenty years and more still miss him tremendously, believe it or not, but through the eyes of my children. and the fact that when a song came out among many called Courage, it hit pretty hard emotionally, but it could have been like a song that meant nothing or it's a good title, yes, but it's not enough, not only is it a good qualification. but I don't think a song could have been written more appropriately than this at this point in my life taking charge of my inner strength yes of my divisions I have my creativity being spontaneous being crazy it takes

courage

it takes courage because I am a single mother, Yes, and I don't want me first, my children, my environment, the people I love to feel that because I have lost the men in my life, that I am going to lose the essence of what I love. passion and I truly believe that through all these years with René who gave me so much who taught me so much who gave me so much baggage that when he left for his new chapter I met his new life he gave me the rest of his baggage and I'm sorry to through my children's eyes and within myself I felt very, very, very strong. probablystronger than ever because I make decisions and I'm not afraid before I wasn't part of the meetings, yes, René I don't really want to say that he protected me too much, but he was protecting me a lot because he wanted me to do it. just think the best you can I want to enjoy and I will do it you don't have to do it you had to learn to do it you had to learn to become a difference yeah it's a learning process like what a gem I'm just curious shut up once in a while and let the people talk.

I feel like I have to speak for René on René's behalf. I have to speak for myself, yes, and I speak a lot like now, yes, a lot to finish. the questions I can't even ask my own questions and answer my questions I left them for about 10 minutes it's like learning that the best is yet to come and you know what I don't want to sound pretentious but I am brave you are I hope you know that the courage that das and I hope you know this that all I could think when I heard that song of courage was how many people I've been through you know losses in my family too how many of us need that song, you know how many of us need that moment, how many of us need how and I hate to put this burden on you, but how your bravery or bravery can help so many people, I mean, I know that's not lost on you.

Well, I appreciate it and if only that's what I need to do to get up on stage and sing that song to help people. Yes, I will do this for the rest of my life and you wish you could do this for the rest of your life because it seems like every year there is a younger generation that falls deeply in love with your music once again and I don't understand if you are familiar with this. Salinas anse they call it the songs of Salinas anse Salinas. Salinas owns the Salinas song that Do You Know It Would Rain?

Can't. Drake wants to get your photo tattooed on his arm and your face tattooed on his arm. He wants yes, yes, he is a very big Canady. I'm just kidding but is there a real one because I know? that but I thought it was fake no he wants to tell me it's fake it's fake but he wants us to come back thank you friend like everything you do everything you do either because when you grow up I'm already thin, yes, so when you grow up you become thinner, You don't want the answer, you know, I know my uncle had a tattoo that said never bet on love and it got so old I couldn't read it as long as he won. okay, something's going on here man, isn't it, something's going on.

I feel like there's a generation of guys that's appreciating your music in a way that maybe the generation before them wasn't, blaming fashion, blaming fashion where there's music or fabric I'm kidding okay it's a thing man it's one thing you're you're a meme you're an internet icon right now you're a good I don't know but look I look I see it and it's um I don't know if it's because and don't get me wrong if I say because it might sound like arch you know , it's a little strange to say that, but it's like you can't please everyone, yes, but I don't care, yes, because I did everything necessary to have an international career, because this is what I wanted.

Yes, you said it was. I didn't, I didn't do that parenting school. I was on stage. You have sacrificed so much III, haven't you? I did not do it. I no longer need to prove to my family, my friends, the industry. Yes, I did, yes, it's okay. They gave me a place mm-hmm, I took it and m I never wanted to be successful I wanted to have a career I went to school I learned English I tried things and right now it's like I'm afraid of failing I don't even consider the failure of failing is that some things don't they will work as Like other things, some people will comment on more clothes.

This is my favorite. I did not like. I prefer this hair. I don't like that one. She said I am, but like I said before, you can't please everyone. I know that I'm going to you, you have to assume that I'm going to a karaoke night and before 8pm to get up and do like that, I would love to go there because I love to sing so much that's the next time we're in Toronto, call me, yeah, when we go, yeah we can take, yeah we will, that's how we'll do it, that's how I'll be like me, I'll wear myself like a CI wig, you can I can feel anything that's when I learned I pushed it down, push it up down Wow we'll see it we'll dress like you and then cool yeah I'm going to say let's get everyone dressed it'll be cool I mean for me to have a look at a wig yeah I can wear it we'll do the opposite I'll do the power of love Don't worry about it, okay, I do one, two, three, one, two, three, I sing, one, two, okay, we'll rehearse them, you know? we'll figure it out I figured it out hey I have so many songs every word you're going to say I have a song devil I'm just trying to think of words you can sing I'd just think about this no I don't know why it's like that why you let yours go that's the last one word that's the first word that came to mind when you said characteristic of that I want a copy I think that should be the cover of the new album if you turn the record that's the work backwards even if it's fender he said like you said you've been raising a family in Las Vegas he spent so much time in Las Vegas it's a pleasure talking to you in Canada Somehow I want to close Asking you how it feels to be back in Canada.

Is incredible. Quebec. Is incredible. My kids finally can. I mean, they brush their teeth really fast because I have to keep them from coming out. They have to dress up and sometimes. They're still in their pajamas just watching my kids enjoy where I grew up where they don't come enough and seeing their uncles and my mom and playing outside and running around barefoot, they don't burn their feet and it's I don't want to speak out against what Las Vegas gives us. has given all these years, but when you go out barefoot in Las Vegas, you can come with your toenails melted, that's real, you know, yeah, the flip flops out all night are melted, yeah, right, yeah, so here it is. like the greens and the weather and the nature and and and picking tomatoes from our little gardens and the kids just playing badminton and ball and bicycle and it's like I said, these are moments that will never never be forgotten and I, as a mother, this is an inheritance that I give you and I am very lucky to have been born here.

This is the blood that runs through my veins mixed with a little maple syrup, so that's who I am. a sweet girl yeah right this has been amazing because I have to tell you that you're going to do this now for the next nine hours so I just want to say this that as you know I'm a musician. this on top is not a banjo, banjo just for girls trying to meet girls like they're going to play banjo. I wanted to thank you man, like you've really inspired a whole generation of musicians in this country and I hope you do.

I know fans come out and are inspired by your songs, but I hope you know that there is a whole generation of musicians who look up to you. I hope one day I put something on YouTube where I can watch you play. song of mine on your banjo i can take advantage of the version of this is how it is oh i can read your mind together they won't leave it on airplanes it's dangerous how am i kidding oh my god i'm just kidding kidding, nice to meet you, nice to meet you, thanks for doing this, thank you very much, it's a pleasure to meet you, thank you, I would love to know that I will work on it when I get home, okay, a new sheet, let's see bigger, yeah, whatever, any key. works whatever we understand, you're wrong I heard a story that I know they're going to kill me I heard a story later, when you did it alone dad, then you did it alone, they released it in three keys where they released it The first thing for you is that, sure, listen, we took a whole day with the piano on the speaker, yeah, with David Foster to pick the key, oh, okay, that's the key, okay, okay, cool.

I get to Los Angeles and he says you're going to Enloquece, I'm so happy with my production, I'm going to play you the song, let's listen to this, it's going to be amazing, that's going to be, it's going to amaze me, it's going to be great and I'm like, I mean David, everything It will be big. Know? nothing small was ever done, obviously, and it was amazing, but I and then I said, but what did I say, David, I said is that the final key, that without no, he said, that's what he said, it's like, I think it was like a key. and a half higher and I'm like, okay, why do we spend a whole day on the key that works and now I'm here and then it's a key?

I think everything blew up my pants, my bra, you know what? I hear in the back it's not the drum it's my clothes I still love it it's hard not to love it and people stop breathing how to play the note and I see it too I think I see a laser pointer on my forehead I think I'm going I'm going to force you, they're going to kick me out if I keep talking to you, it's a pleasure to meet you, I'm the boss, I'm going to protect you. God loves you, take care, thank you very much.