I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.

I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.

In an ideal world people would know the words just for the show and then forget them right after.

The basics of acting are really better in America than in Europe. Just the basic "fake laugh" is impossible to get in France.

In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.

In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.

The more you say no the more people ask.

One of my favorite French singers, Alain Bashung, was the expert at creating his own universe; no one knows what he's talking about, even he doesn't know because it's so poetic.

I think Björk is playing on the fact she knows she's eccentric and she accepts the fact.

Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner, " than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.

If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only becasue it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.

I have something to say. I know how to do something. I’m doing it. If you want me to do it with you, raise your hand.

Social media demands a lot of us on top of our already demanding lives. So let's disconnect as we need to and renew our interest and ourselves.

I'm only being cute here. I don't really mean it. I just wanted to make you smile.

People are terrible. They do terrible things to each other, they hurt each other, they lie, they're vain, they're shallow, they're violent ... but they're all we have.

If the majority of people of a country, no matter how great its natural resources, organize and conspire to get more out and put less in, to do less and get more, how long will, how long can it last?