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

People judged my work without to have listened to it.

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

After a desperate fight, to know to congratulate your opponent, if he has beaten you, to shake his hand and go for a drink with him, in my eyes these things are particularly important.

In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.

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.

I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.