People judged my work without to have listened to it.

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

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

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

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.