I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

Drugs are a carnival in hell.

I don't lie; I improve on my life.

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

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