I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.

When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.

People judged my work without to have listened to it.

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.