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.

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

With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.

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

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

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.

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