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"We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters."

"Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs."

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

"In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke."

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

"My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France."

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

"So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies."
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