To me, the most poetic and intelligent way to bring up a subject is by showing very simply who you are and what you believe in.

My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.

When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about.

In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.

I like peace and solitude and silence.

I hoped that, you know, France wouldn't mind about, you know, the wife of their president to having a job.

Now I'm not going to go, "Oh my God, what are people saying about me?" I had a choice to be a student and not become a model, and becoming a doctor was another one of my dreams. I had a choice between not becoming a singer or becoming a songwriter and writing behind the scenes; nobody would have seen me writing songs for other people. I had the choice of not marrying my man; we could have just been hidden lovers, but I couldn't cope with it. I had these choices to do all these things, so I'm not going to cry over a life which has been really lucky.