When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis.

I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home.

I didn't start a war. Nobody died.

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?