I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.

I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.

In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.

The basics of acting are really better in America than in Europe. Just the basic "fake laugh" is impossible to get in France.

There was never a choice to sing in English or French, that's the thing. We started a band and sang right away in English. You reproduce the thing you like, and most of the bands we liked were coming from England or the U.S. We also came to cherish the fact that there was no one in France singing in English -we were so happy Phoenix to be the first. Even if we are traitors to France, our country, which I'll never understand, because we talk about things that are very French.

In an ideal world people would know the words just for the show and then forget them right after.

In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.