The European Union should not be prescribing an identity. We know what that's like, when a government tells its people how it should look; what it should be doing. That's the first step towards totalitarianism.

Even if it doesn't sound like it at first, that's an identity that Europe can go out into the world with and take a leading role.

It's true that in France there is always this ridiculous complex about money. Money is cursed, shameful, money disqualifies you . . . In America, even though it is a Protestant country, it's the opposite.

France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects.

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.

The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.