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.

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

When I was singing, everybody liked me.

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.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

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.