I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

I think once you're a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get.

I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.

When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.

I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.

I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.