There’s no great technical expertise in being a movie producer.
There’s hundreds of different ways of writing songs.
Dandelions don’t tell no lies...
Right now I can’t be sure that I will be back on stage. We have been touring for two years and that is way too much.
People don’t bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!
I really don’t see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I’ve been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film.
Thanks to everyone in Israel for the wonderful welcome. It was a great show and we’ll remember it forever.
Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don’t know about something, you can’t understand what is going on.
Movies in this country, its very complicated, and we could bang on about it forever, but the French movie industry is very different because its very obviously French.
Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.
No one, but no one, is equal, or ever will be. Elvis was and is supreme.
I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.
I’d done a very long project on Bridges To Babylon. I was on the road for ages with that. When I came off the road, I thought, the next thing I want to do on my own.
Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.
When we heard we were topping the bill over James Brown we couldn’t believe it. We tried for two days to get it changed round – I mean you can’t follow an act like that.
Either we stay at home and become pillars of the community or we go out and tour. We couldn’t really find any communities that still needed pillars.
Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.
Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.
Have I turned into a motorized preacher? We spend so much time in cars that if you don’t try to get some experiences out of it, you can go crazy.
Something that you can’t play in your kitchen is rap. It is done in your neighbour’s kitchen.