Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

You cannot fight against it. There's a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don't want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: 'You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter.'

I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.