Who buys French cars? Not me.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

I buy my shoes a size too small. I like the way it feels.

I am a sort of vampire, taking the blood of other people.

There are so many third-rate people now who are more famous than people who should be famous, but sometimes people who could or should be famous are very boring, too.

Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves someone for their beauty really love them?’ So don’t focus on beauty ... a respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul. It is the sum of our experiences that makes us interesting, and having been through a time in your life in which you were in a bad place (or what you perceived as a bad place) physically, can be useful. It can even be necessary.

I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.