I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line in a song by Georges Brassens [French singer-songwriter]: 'Les imbciles heureux qui sont ns quelquepart.' I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.

God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.

Because we don't have much time together, I will give you as much love in a year as I could give you in a lifetime.

I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.

When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.