Del.icio.us
Digg
Reddit
Facebook
StumbleUpon
TwitThis
Going With the Flow
RD: It's funny to me that someone who has such a talent as you would not say that your wealth is all in your voice.Dion: Not at all. To me, it's like money. Okay, you have money, for old age, good for you. You sing, you are lucky, have a good time, good for you. But it's not a must in life. If I didn't have a voice -- or if I have a voice, but I'm not successful -- I would have been as happy being a mother or working at a store. I'm happy for what I've been given -- my roots and values. It's not my voice that's bringing me my joy. That's just a side order.
RD: You had the scare with René with cancer. That's got to be very frightening.
Dion: Yes. It's not something that you think about every day, but I'm scared, of course. Being the youngest of the entourage, I feel like I'm going to lose petals on all my flowers. We're all going to lose people that we love. We lose our mothers and our fathers, and sometimes I think, if I go first, maybe it would be better. But that's not the way it works. Hopefully we can be together as long as possible. We're fortunate for every day. You can't think of death. You have to be thankful and not take anything for granted.
RD: Live for the moment?
Dion: You deal with this if and when it happens, and you find the strength. That's life. Life is death. Life is not given to us, it is borrowed.
RD: What's your plan for the long term?
Dion: What I think I want is to do the Vegas thing for a few years, see if it works. Then take three, four, five years off, maybe do a show here and there, a record once in a while, maybe a movie if it's meant to be -- but relax. I've done a lot of work. I don't mean I'll retire completely, but I'll do just a few things here and there. We'll see.
RD: Sometimes the future is what happens to us.
Dion: Well, that's it. You can see what you might want, but then you have to go with the flow.
Advertisement 
