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"The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past."

"The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward."

"For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out."

"France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors."

"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."

"Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs."
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"When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words."

"I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to."

"I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen."

"When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over."

"If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris."

"I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air."

"It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs."
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