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

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

I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.

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.

It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

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.