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.

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

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.

Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.

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

In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.