I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.

I listen to a variety of music. The only common point is strong lyrics; I'm more obsessed with lyrics than music. I need to hear a form of truth, and if it's a hard truth, even better.

In England you laugh at yourselves, in France we laugh at others.

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great.

I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity.

I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

It is impossible for me to get involved in films that I don't like, so I just wait for a project that really tickles my fancy.

There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got nausea, thinking, "Don't even try to be smart, it's absurd."

I was always the funny-looking girl. I couldn't compete with the Brazilian girls. My nose is off, my ears are too big. But I think it's my personality that these designers were drawn to.

I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.

Think before you do! Don’t ever be in haste to make a mistake, for that can be a big mistake! Think before you do!

You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts.

Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can.

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.

Life on the open road is liberty... to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world.

My books are about killing God.

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

You either live under a rock or you walk in the sunshine. That’s pretty much how it goes.

Love yourself; and in that love not unconsidered leave your honor.