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

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.

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

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.

No more need to rob Peter to pay Paul with Cosmic Ordering.

In the distant golden sunset sky, a magnificent rainbow is opening wings to fly.

Success isn't always going to be a huge contract success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.

I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.

In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

I'm not a happy person when I'm working.

Asia's crowded and Europe's too old, Africa is far too hot and Canada's too cold. And South America stole our name, let's drop the big one.

What are you? Stupid? Of course they have a guard. What part of ‘You’re a prisoner’ did you miss? (Delphine)

The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.