I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.

It is impossible for me to get involved in films that I don't like, so I just wait for a project that really tickles my fancy.

In England you laugh at yourselves, in France we laugh at others.

Music came as the best thing for me at home, where no one can tell you anything. For years I was so closed, wanting to do it exactly like I had it in my head, because this would be the only place that was superpersonal.

I have a huge scarf from Hermes that I bought the day I signed my record deal. I had never had an Hermes scarf. And I ran to buy one, thinking, Now, this is a symbol, I need one, I need an Hermes scarf, which actually now Im quite embarrassed about. Most of the time I twist it so much that no one notices it, and just bundle it around me.

The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to write in French.

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great.