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.

There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

All children are my children.

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

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