I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much of it as I can back to children.

I always try to see things with children's eyes. Are they happy? Sad? What do they need? Everywhere I went, I realized that children are society's victims ... We have a duty to speak to political leaders, to influence people to give these children a better future.

When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.

How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

The idea of the European community is never face a war again.