Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

I always thought my days spent in darkness [as a child she had cataracts and was unable to see for nearly four years] gave me a very special sensitivity. Much later, when I really wanted to hear, really 'see' a song, I'd close my eyes, and when I wanted to bring it out of the very depths of myself, out of my guts, out of my belly, when the song had to come from far away, I'd close my eyes.

For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.

All I've done all my life is disobey.

Americans want beauties, not me. I’m not the Parisian bombshell they expected. Can you see me as a chorus girl? Where’s my feather up the ass? They think I’m sad, they’re dumb. I don’t connect to them

I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly.