In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.

I don't like being on my own. I'm happy meeting people and collaborating.

Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself.

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being a stranger in a foreign land, which was helpful.

When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.