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

At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

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

People judged my work without to have listened to it.

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.

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.