I started so old, so the touring world will always be a foreign land for me. I'll never be someone who's "been on the road."

I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.

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

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.

With a film you go with the script that's already written. And I've never thought of a project, a film that would come from my own desire. I don't think I can do it. I need someone else's desire to be able to do something. With a record, it is completely different, it's a collaboration with another artist, but I'm willing to go into intimate places with no masks on.

I didn't go to acting school, so it was great to be able to rehearse for a month or two, to workshop, and be with a director who even gave me acting exercises.

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.