I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

I don't believe in God, I only believe in Al Pacino, and that's the truth.

If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

If we give up freedom for security, we are in danger of losing both.

There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

I know that my audience is largely women, so what I try to do a lot of times is address their issues.