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.

I think sometimes you are born with a song.

When I was singing, everybody liked me.

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

My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.

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.

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