I have ideas of subjects and atmospheres that I love. I either want to go in a tougher, stronger direction or do the opposite: simple ballads.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time.

I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.

There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere.

I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

No soldier ever really survives a war.

Our body hears whatever is in our minds and responds.

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

I think I was always inspired by seeing a problem, and finding a solution.

When I was hacking, it was more pushing the status quo and seeing how far you can go.

It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.

We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.