I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.
When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.
I'm really in touch with my fans. Through their emails, letters and stories is how I decide what music I'm going to perform.
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.
I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.
I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.
I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.
Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialogue and music.
I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.
Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.
It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.
I loved music - listening and playing - but of course I could not imagine I would be a professional musician. It really happened step by step.
There's really only three things you can write music about: girls, cars and surfing.
Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years.
I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.
My drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular.
In a way, I'm like Will Rogers, never having met a man I really disliked. I'm not a vamp. I just like men.
Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.
I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.
My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person.
I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.
