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"Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs."
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"When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key."
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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."
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"In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke."
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"Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven."
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"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."
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"In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it."
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"We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters."
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"For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out."
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"I always knew I would live in France."
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"My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France."
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"No, because I've never really changed my style that much."
Style
"We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big."
American
"So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had."
Fashion
"I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years."
Quiet
"Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls."
Business
"There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her."
Dress
"It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black."
First
"The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s."
Folk
"My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters."
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"You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause."
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