My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

I realized that women are still not seen as equal to men. We had a big wave of feminism just before my generation was born. We're still sitting on this wave. There are very militant people and very aggressive women at the top of that wave but I think we have a new version of it now.

I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me.

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.

I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.

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.

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.