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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.