I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!

I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.

Everyone needs acknowledgement. When we're kids, we need it from our parents. If you don't get love from your family, you're destroyed inside.

I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.

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

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.

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.